DOI issue:
No. 182 (January 1925)
DOI article:[Studio-talk]
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21402#0047
LEEDS
" THE BOAT BUILDER." AQUATINT
BY HAROLD H. HOLDEN, A.R.C.A.
LEEDS.—To the outside observer the his position, finds time to create beautiful
position of the principal of an art work of his own, will bring to bear energy,
school in an industrial town has something commensurate with the needs of the com-
in it of the heroic. He seems a solitary munity in which he works, upon the task
being, fighting, almost alone, the forces of of making Leeds beautiful, a 0 0
industrial barbarity and unpracticality, Mr. Holden's own work shows technical
and destined to find difficulties every- purity and power of a marked descrip-
where. Mr. Harold Holden, A.R.C.A., tion and the spirit behind the technical
Principal of Leeds School of Art, shows, ability is not wanting. Particularly in the
however, an unexpected optimism. He case of his aquatint The Boat Builder, there
even appears to believe that Leeds wants is evidence of that confidence-inspiring
art. Outside observers are doubtless prone " tightness " which comes from mastery
to mistakes, and so it is only wise to defer of medium and of form. If artistic com-
to his opinion, despite appearances outside monsense is to be brought to the grime-
the school of art, and to opine that Leeds, encrusted cities of commerce it will be
as well as needing art, wants art. In any brought by the hands of men of energy
case it seems certain that Mr. Holden, and knowledge—such men as Mr. Holden.
who, in addition to the onerous duties of J. W. S.
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" THE BOAT BUILDER." AQUATINT
BY HAROLD H. HOLDEN, A.R.C.A.
LEEDS.—To the outside observer the his position, finds time to create beautiful
position of the principal of an art work of his own, will bring to bear energy,
school in an industrial town has something commensurate with the needs of the com-
in it of the heroic. He seems a solitary munity in which he works, upon the task
being, fighting, almost alone, the forces of of making Leeds beautiful, a 0 0
industrial barbarity and unpracticality, Mr. Holden's own work shows technical
and destined to find difficulties every- purity and power of a marked descrip-
where. Mr. Harold Holden, A.R.C.A., tion and the spirit behind the technical
Principal of Leeds School of Art, shows, ability is not wanting. Particularly in the
however, an unexpected optimism. He case of his aquatint The Boat Builder, there
even appears to believe that Leeds wants is evidence of that confidence-inspiring
art. Outside observers are doubtless prone " tightness " which comes from mastery
to mistakes, and so it is only wise to defer of medium and of form. If artistic com-
to his opinion, despite appearances outside monsense is to be brought to the grime-
the school of art, and to opine that Leeds, encrusted cities of commerce it will be
as well as needing art, wants art. In any brought by the hands of men of energy
case it seems certain that Mr. Holden, and knowledge—such men as Mr. Holden.
who, in addition to the onerous duties of J. W. S.
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