DOI issue:
No. 373 (April 1924)
DOI article:[Notes: two hundred and twenty-one illustrations]
DOI Page / Citation link: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21399#0227
LONDON
LONDON.—The memorial exhibition,
in the galleries of the Fine Art Society,
of works by the late E. Reginald Frampton
must be noted as an excellent summing up
of the achievement of an artist who had
made for himself a position of considerable
distinction. He had a very sound sense of
design and a thorough understanding of
the real principles of decoration which
enabled him to produce compositions of
an unusually attractive type. His work was
agreeably free from that slovenly super-
ficiality of expression and method which
spoils most of the so-called decoration of
the present day and the conventions he
adopted were based upon serious and
intimate study of nature so that they never
became merely mechanical. In this show
there were, in addition to many interesting
figure subjects, several landscapes in which
realities were very skilfully adapted and
used in the working out of decorative
schemes. 00000
A series of drawings in colour by Kay
Nielsen, for the illustration of Hans
Andersen’s fairy tales and other books,
has been lately shown at the Leicester
Galleries. The variety and originality of
his work made the exhibition exceedingly
attractive, but whether the kind of Oriental
fancy by which his work is usually dis-
tinguished is suited to such subjects as
are to be found in Hans Andersen’s stories
is open to question ; however, it was very
appropriately displayed in his illustrations
for the “ Arabian Nights ” and the
“ Rubaiyat ” of Omar Khayyam—these
were, on the whole, the best things in the
collection. 0000a
Miss Eva Savory's flower paintings, at
the Gieves Gallery, deserve to be noted for
their frankness of method and fresh gaiety
“ VRAI ET BEAU ”
BY EVA SAVORY
(Gieves Gallery)
209
LONDON.—The memorial exhibition,
in the galleries of the Fine Art Society,
of works by the late E. Reginald Frampton
must be noted as an excellent summing up
of the achievement of an artist who had
made for himself a position of considerable
distinction. He had a very sound sense of
design and a thorough understanding of
the real principles of decoration which
enabled him to produce compositions of
an unusually attractive type. His work was
agreeably free from that slovenly super-
ficiality of expression and method which
spoils most of the so-called decoration of
the present day and the conventions he
adopted were based upon serious and
intimate study of nature so that they never
became merely mechanical. In this show
there were, in addition to many interesting
figure subjects, several landscapes in which
realities were very skilfully adapted and
used in the working out of decorative
schemes. 00000
A series of drawings in colour by Kay
Nielsen, for the illustration of Hans
Andersen’s fairy tales and other books,
has been lately shown at the Leicester
Galleries. The variety and originality of
his work made the exhibition exceedingly
attractive, but whether the kind of Oriental
fancy by which his work is usually dis-
tinguished is suited to such subjects as
are to be found in Hans Andersen’s stories
is open to question ; however, it was very
appropriately displayed in his illustrations
for the “ Arabian Nights ” and the
“ Rubaiyat ” of Omar Khayyam—these
were, on the whole, the best things in the
collection. 0000a
Miss Eva Savory's flower paintings, at
the Gieves Gallery, deserve to be noted for
their frankness of method and fresh gaiety
“ VRAI ET BEAU ”
BY EVA SAVORY
(Gieves Gallery)
209