DOI issue:
No. 340 (July 1921)
DOI article:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21393#0057
STUDIO-TALK
STAGE OF ARTS AND CRAFTS PLAY-
HOUSE, SHOWING THE BURNE-JONES
TAPESTRY " THE BUILDING OF THE
TEMPLE," AND EMBROIDERED
BED-HANGINGS BY MAY MORRIS
(Detroit Museum)
great interest. The work of organising the The collection generally was, with the
exhibition fell to two officers of the exception of bulky articles such as furni-
Detroit Society, Miss Alexandrine McEwen ture, and fragile things like stained glass,
(Vice-President) and Miss Helen Plumb which were excluded on account of trans-
(the Secretary) who visited England to- port difficulties, representative of the best
gether in the summer of 1920 and made the work now being done by the artist crafts-
necessary arrangements for the collection men of the United Kingdom, and, in fact,
and transport of the exhibits. During the experts who have studied it have declared
currency of the exhibition here it was visited it to be the best collection of applied art
by very large crowds, drawn not merely which has ever gone out of England. The
from the immediate locality but from contributors included the President of the
near-by cities as well; and many museum English Arts and Crafts Society, Mr.
directors and art experts came to see it. Henry Wilson, and most of the leading
The building of our Society of Arts and members, as well as a few who do not
Crafts lent itself most agreeably to the pur- belong to that organisation—such as Miss
pose of the exhibition, which was to display Ruth Rayner, whose charming needlework
the individual works, whenever possible, as panel, The Edge of the World, of which a
they might actually be used. For example, coloured reproduction was published by
the stage, which has a most elaborate and The Studio a few months back, has been
flexible lighting equipment, was used with purchased by our Museum of Art. The
rich taupe velvet curtains as a background Burne-Jones tapestry mentioned above as
for the Burne-Jones tapestry, The Building coming from the Morris looms has also
of the Temple, from the looms of Messrs. found a home in Detroit, having been pur-
Morris & Co. at Merton, and also for the chased by a collector of this city. a
excellent embroidered bed-hangings by It is safe to predict that by the time this
Miss May Morris. The auditorium was exhibition has been the round of the
used to show, on screens, a group of American cities as planned, finishing up at
decorative panels by Mr. George Shering- the Cleveland in June, it will have left an
ham, Miss Sybil Meugens, and Mr. and enduring impression on the American
Mrs. C. R. Mackintosh. 0 a a public. N. B.
41
STAGE OF ARTS AND CRAFTS PLAY-
HOUSE, SHOWING THE BURNE-JONES
TAPESTRY " THE BUILDING OF THE
TEMPLE," AND EMBROIDERED
BED-HANGINGS BY MAY MORRIS
(Detroit Museum)
great interest. The work of organising the The collection generally was, with the
exhibition fell to two officers of the exception of bulky articles such as furni-
Detroit Society, Miss Alexandrine McEwen ture, and fragile things like stained glass,
(Vice-President) and Miss Helen Plumb which were excluded on account of trans-
(the Secretary) who visited England to- port difficulties, representative of the best
gether in the summer of 1920 and made the work now being done by the artist crafts-
necessary arrangements for the collection men of the United Kingdom, and, in fact,
and transport of the exhibits. During the experts who have studied it have declared
currency of the exhibition here it was visited it to be the best collection of applied art
by very large crowds, drawn not merely which has ever gone out of England. The
from the immediate locality but from contributors included the President of the
near-by cities as well; and many museum English Arts and Crafts Society, Mr.
directors and art experts came to see it. Henry Wilson, and most of the leading
The building of our Society of Arts and members, as well as a few who do not
Crafts lent itself most agreeably to the pur- belong to that organisation—such as Miss
pose of the exhibition, which was to display Ruth Rayner, whose charming needlework
the individual works, whenever possible, as panel, The Edge of the World, of which a
they might actually be used. For example, coloured reproduction was published by
the stage, which has a most elaborate and The Studio a few months back, has been
flexible lighting equipment, was used with purchased by our Museum of Art. The
rich taupe velvet curtains as a background Burne-Jones tapestry mentioned above as
for the Burne-Jones tapestry, The Building coming from the Morris looms has also
of the Temple, from the looms of Messrs. found a home in Detroit, having been pur-
Morris & Co. at Merton, and also for the chased by a collector of this city. a
excellent embroidered bed-hangings by It is safe to predict that by the time this
Miss May Morris. The auditorium was exhibition has been the round of the
used to show, on screens, a group of American cities as planned, finishing up at
decorative panels by Mr. George Shering- the Cleveland in June, it will have left an
ham, Miss Sybil Meugens, and Mr. and enduring impression on the American
Mrs. C. R. Mackintosh. 0 a a public. N. B.
41