Studio: international art (89.1925)

EDINBURGH—GLASGOW

BOOKPLATE BY JOHN
R. SUTHERLAND

EDINBURGH—Whether the universal
carelessness of book borrowers had any-
thing to do with the origin of bookplates,
I do not know, and space is not here avail-
able to trace their evolution from an early
heraldic character to that of their present
day motives. Perhaps few artists in Scot-
land are more qualified in the designing of
heraldry than Mr. J. R. Sutherland, who
for a considerable number of years was
engaged as designer at The Lyon Court,
Edinburgh, and who since resigning his
position there has specialised in heraldic
decoration, some of his most notable
achievements of which may be seen in The
Thistle Chapel, Edinburgh. Though the
heraldic motive is not in evidence in his
bookplate here illustrated, it is an example of
one of his many designs, characteristically
expressive of his careful thought and
unique technical ability. E. A. T.

GLASGOW. —Whether Mr. Andrew
Law was an extremely brilliant
student, or not, I am uncertain, but
he was fortunate in the Glasgow
School of Art, by coming under the
directorship of Mr. Fra. H. Newbery,
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who was quick to see if a student had any
individuality, and if so, encouraged it by
not setting tasks wherein it was liable to be
destroyed. But if one wishes to trace Mr.
Law's student days successes in that
school, one will find that he was the
recipient of three bronze medals and the
Haldane Travelling Scholarship, and later
in Paris awarded a medal in Academie
Delecluse evening life class concours.
During all those few, but varied years
Mr. Law added greatly to his technical
art education in which he throughout
maintained his own thoughtful personality.
Ultimately he returned to his home in
Kilmarnock, where the study of animals,
portrait painting and street scenes were
the principal subjects of his many dis-
tinctive and vigorously painted canvases.
Now resident in Glasgow, he is always a
prominent exhibitor in that City's Fine
Art Institute and The Royal Scottish
Academy, Edinburgh, and numbers
amongst some of his most recent paintings
vitally attractive portraits of various dig-
nitaries, including one of the Lord Provost
of his early school-day town, of Kil-
marnock. The accompanying Jane Street,
Glasgow, was outstanding when shown in
the recent autumn exhibition in The
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool. E. A. T.

MISS JESSIE MELVIN "
BY ANDREW LAW