Studio: international art (84.1922)

STUDIO-TALK

LUNETTE FOR THE NEW CUNARD
STEAMSHIP "ANDANIA." BY G.
HARRIS AND W. ALISON MARTIN

commissioned Messrs. G. Harris and
Alison Martin to paint four lunettes—that
is, two for each ship—as a suitable integral
part of the decoration. So that we have the
old right order—the patron, the architect,
and the artist working together. The result
of this combination of architectural and
mural art is excellent. When an artist's
work is set in beautiful mouldings designed
by an efficient architect he is happier than
when his picture inhabits some common-
place and guiltily gilt frame. The lunettes

LUNETTE FOR THE NEW CUNARD
STEAMSHIP " ANDANIA." BY G
HARRIS AND W. ALISON MARTIN

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the artists, Mr. W. Alison Martin has prob-
ably done most in this direction. Pictures
of his have found homes in ships belonging
to the Pacific Steam Navigation Co.,
Messrs. Lamport & Holt, and, quite re-
cently, in those of the Cunard Company.
This company have adopted a method of
procedure which merits commendation.
The decoration of their two new ships, the
"Andania" and "Antonia," was entrusted
to a Liverpool firm of architects, Messrs.
Shepheard & Bower, who have in turn