DOI issue:
No. 371 (February 1924)
DOI article:[Notes: two hundred and twenty-one illustrations]
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21399#0114
COTSWOLDS—GLASGOW
LECTERN. BY
PETER WAALS
COTSWOLDS.—The work of Mr.
Waals entitled him to a prominent
place among living designers and crafts-
men. The lectern which we illustrate
shows how successfully he has assimilated
the distinguishing qualities and general
characteristics of the late Mr. Gimson's
productions, and he has proved himself
an able disciple of that gifted designer,
without sacrificing his own personality.
One welcomes a treatment of woodwork
so essentially modern and individual,
obtaining its effects by simple and legiti-
mate means. 00000
96
GLASGOW.—The pessimist who con-
siders that art, commercial or otherwise,
has made little attractive progress since his
schooldays, has only to glance at a railway
bookstall, and consider its attractiveness
now in comparison with what it was like
not so very many years ago. I think it was
at a bookstall that I was first drawn to the
work of Mr. Tom Gentleman. There,
amongst the vast display, were many
magazine and book covers, most of them
approaching nearer to the genuine in art
than many gallery pictures. Amongst
them were some very striking periodical
covers, as well as some charmingly designed
head and tail decorations, each one signed
T.G. I ultimately found the owner of
those initials to be one of the younger
group of Glasgow artists, and one who had
distinguished himself as a student while in
the Glasgow School of Art. Returning to
his Glasgow studio after long service at the
War, fortunately he was not too seriously
wounded to settle down to the close study
and enjoyment in completing the various
commissions in poster designing, book
covers and their decorations which awaited
him. That this is a branch of art to which
he is strongly attracted, will be evident to
anyone who may have noticed his uniquely
designed outside and inside decorative
illustrations in “ The Scots Pictorial.” It is
perhaps, however, by his later posters that
he has made the most outstanding appeal;
for they are extremely personal and dis-
tinctive. His accompanying Yo Ho ! {or
Devon gained one of the Great Western
Railway Company’s competition prizes,
which were sought after by some three
thousand competitors; his The Stage
Coach, is the title of another uncommonly
interesting cover, designed for an enter-
prising publisher’s Christmas Number.
Not only posters, however, hold his
artistic attention, as one may witness in
viewing his admirably designed and painted
Spanish Village and his arrestingly con-
ceived Bull-fight in Madrid, with The
Picador Kem. And from his recent
sketching-ground on the outskirts of a
fascinating little town in Galloway, he can
show some individually thoughtful render-
ings in oils of its woodlands, hills and
Solway-girt coast. 0000
E. A. T.
LECTERN. BY
PETER WAALS
COTSWOLDS.—The work of Mr.
Waals entitled him to a prominent
place among living designers and crafts-
men. The lectern which we illustrate
shows how successfully he has assimilated
the distinguishing qualities and general
characteristics of the late Mr. Gimson's
productions, and he has proved himself
an able disciple of that gifted designer,
without sacrificing his own personality.
One welcomes a treatment of woodwork
so essentially modern and individual,
obtaining its effects by simple and legiti-
mate means. 00000
96
GLASGOW.—The pessimist who con-
siders that art, commercial or otherwise,
has made little attractive progress since his
schooldays, has only to glance at a railway
bookstall, and consider its attractiveness
now in comparison with what it was like
not so very many years ago. I think it was
at a bookstall that I was first drawn to the
work of Mr. Tom Gentleman. There,
amongst the vast display, were many
magazine and book covers, most of them
approaching nearer to the genuine in art
than many gallery pictures. Amongst
them were some very striking periodical
covers, as well as some charmingly designed
head and tail decorations, each one signed
T.G. I ultimately found the owner of
those initials to be one of the younger
group of Glasgow artists, and one who had
distinguished himself as a student while in
the Glasgow School of Art. Returning to
his Glasgow studio after long service at the
War, fortunately he was not too seriously
wounded to settle down to the close study
and enjoyment in completing the various
commissions in poster designing, book
covers and their decorations which awaited
him. That this is a branch of art to which
he is strongly attracted, will be evident to
anyone who may have noticed his uniquely
designed outside and inside decorative
illustrations in “ The Scots Pictorial.” It is
perhaps, however, by his later posters that
he has made the most outstanding appeal;
for they are extremely personal and dis-
tinctive. His accompanying Yo Ho ! {or
Devon gained one of the Great Western
Railway Company’s competition prizes,
which were sought after by some three
thousand competitors; his The Stage
Coach, is the title of another uncommonly
interesting cover, designed for an enter-
prising publisher’s Christmas Number.
Not only posters, however, hold his
artistic attention, as one may witness in
viewing his admirably designed and painted
Spanish Village and his arrestingly con-
ceived Bull-fight in Madrid, with The
Picador Kem. And from his recent
sketching-ground on the outskirts of a
fascinating little town in Galloway, he can
show some individually thoughtful render-
ings in oils of its woodlands, hills and
Solway-girt coast. 0000
E. A. T.