DOI issue:
No. 384 (March 1925)
DOI article:[Studio-talk]
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21402#0162
LONDON
"GRAND OPERA"
BY J. LITTLEJOHNS
(Pastel Society)
exhibition of the New English"Art Club, figure is arresting. Mr. Howes has
Mr. Rigden Read's Night Piece to Julia, modelled his Madonna with an eye to
reproduced from the original colour wood- its relationship to an architectural scheme,
print, is notable as an artistic exercise and hence he has produced a much more
which has both originality and technical conventionalised result, which, however,
interest. a a a 0 a does not thereby lose in interest and
Among the details employed in the attractiveness. 0000
treatment of the Memorial Chapel at Eton In May, 1926, the Embroiderers' Guild
College—for which Mr. W. H. Godfrey will hold, at Walker's Galleries, an exhibi-
was responsible as architect—the figures tion in which only work which has been
of archangels, carved in oak by Mr. shown after 31st December, 1924, will be
Burns Brown, take prominent places, included. All particulars may be obtained
The chapel was designed as a shrine for from the Secretary, 74, Grosvenor Street,
the " Golden Book," in which are recorded W.i. 0 0 0 0 0 0
the names of Etonians who fell in the War, In connection with the Wren bicenten-
and these figures, with their outspread ary, the R.I.B A. has published a book on
wings, symbolise the guardians of the Wren and his work, written by experts,
shrine and keep watch over the roll of This well-illustrated volume is priced at
honour placed below. 000 five guineas, and the profits of the sale
Two very different types of sculpture are being devoted to the St. Paul's Preser-
are represented on page 152, but each is vation Fund; copies may be obtained
admirable in its own way. The dramatic from the Librarian, R.I.B.A., 9, Conduit
and emotional feeling of Mr. Cameron's Street, W.i. 0 0 000
156
"GRAND OPERA"
BY J. LITTLEJOHNS
(Pastel Society)
exhibition of the New English"Art Club, figure is arresting. Mr. Howes has
Mr. Rigden Read's Night Piece to Julia, modelled his Madonna with an eye to
reproduced from the original colour wood- its relationship to an architectural scheme,
print, is notable as an artistic exercise and hence he has produced a much more
which has both originality and technical conventionalised result, which, however,
interest. a a a 0 a does not thereby lose in interest and
Among the details employed in the attractiveness. 0000
treatment of the Memorial Chapel at Eton In May, 1926, the Embroiderers' Guild
College—for which Mr. W. H. Godfrey will hold, at Walker's Galleries, an exhibi-
was responsible as architect—the figures tion in which only work which has been
of archangels, carved in oak by Mr. shown after 31st December, 1924, will be
Burns Brown, take prominent places, included. All particulars may be obtained
The chapel was designed as a shrine for from the Secretary, 74, Grosvenor Street,
the " Golden Book," in which are recorded W.i. 0 0 0 0 0 0
the names of Etonians who fell in the War, In connection with the Wren bicenten-
and these figures, with their outspread ary, the R.I.B A. has published a book on
wings, symbolise the guardians of the Wren and his work, written by experts,
shrine and keep watch over the roll of This well-illustrated volume is priced at
honour placed below. 000 five guineas, and the profits of the sale
Two very different types of sculpture are being devoted to the St. Paul's Preser-
are represented on page 152, but each is vation Fund; copies may be obtained
admirable in its own way. The dramatic from the Librarian, R.I.B.A., 9, Conduit
and emotional feeling of Mr. Cameron's Street, W.i. 0 0 000
156