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THE STUDIO FINE ART AND ARCHITECTURE AT THE CHICAGO WORLD’S FAIR DRAWINGS BY EDNA CLARKE HALL PHOTOGRAPHS BY MARTIN MUNKÁCSI PAINTINGS BY FRANCISCO VIDAL LONDON TYPES BY STANLEY ANDERSON OCTOBER 1933 2s. NET
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SALE of ROYAL COPENHAGEN PORCELAIN COMMENCING OCTOBER 16th IN announcing a special Sale we are adopting an entirely new policy. Only once before have we offered ROYAL COPENHAGEN PORCELAIN MODELS AND TABLEWARE at reduced prices, viz., three years ago, prior to moving into our new premises. Present conditions are unusual—tastes, habits and fashions are changing far more rapidly than in the past—we must therefore adapt ourselves to the new situation. To make room for the many new goods now being produced at the Works in Copenhagen, we are making a bold move by offering at greatly reduced prices a considerable number of Porcelain Models and Vases, also a large selection of Tableware—Dinner, Breakfast, Lunch, Dessert and Tea Services—and a large quantity of oddments. We advise you to avail yourself of this opportunity, which may not occur again, and cordially invite you to visit our Galleries. This special Sale commences on OCTOBER 16th and continues for FOUR WEEKS, closing SATURDAY NOVEMBER 11th. --- ROYAL COPENHAGEN PORCELAIN CO. LTD. 6, OLD BOND STREET, LONDON, W.1. --- ATHELIA STUDIO DES TROIS QUARTIERS Bd. de la MADELEINE AD. I
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THE STUDIO Edited by C. Geoffrey Holme Number 487 Volume CVI Contents for October 1933 Content --- PAGE --- “A Century of Progress” in Art. Chicago World Fair --- Modern American Planning (The Home and Industrial Arts Section of the World’s Fair) --- Drawings by Edna Clarke Hall --- Photographs by Martin Munkácsi --- London Types (Line Engravings) by Stanley Anderson --- The Italian Lakes (THE STUDIO Travel Section) --- Paintings by Francisco Vidal --- “The European Movement in Architecture” --- American Art News --- Art News --- Fine Craftsmanship --- SUPPLEMENTS Title --- Author --- Price --- Interior of a Bus. --- William Maw Egley --- Frontispiece --- Girl’s Head. --- Neville Lewis --- Stage Design. --- Donald Oenslager --- East River, New York. --- Adrian Daintrey --- Panel Designed for the House of Lords. --- Frank Brangwyn, R.A. --- Textiles. --- Morton Sundour Fabrics --- THE NOVEMBER ISSUE ADVENTURES IN MODERN ART: I. IN SEARCH OF THE ABSOLUTE; PAINTINGS OF THE NEW YORK WATER COLOR CLUB; ART AND MASS PRODUCTION; THE ACTIVITIES OF SVENSKA SLOGDFÖRENINGEN IN SWEDEN. --- EDITORIAL. Valuable originals are usually insured while in custody of The Studio, but it must be understood that all material is sent, and received, at owner’s risk. Contributors should submit photographs, for first consideration, rather than originals. All material should bear full name and address, and be accompanied by return postage. Personal Enquiries should be accompanied by a stamped and addressed envelope. The Editor can only be seen by appointment. AGENTS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS. Heme, 2s. per copy; 28s. per annum, post free. Bound Volume 15s. Overseas, British Dominions. India, Countries in Postal Union. 30s. post free. Canada The Musson Book Co., 225 Jarvis St., Toronto), 26s. post free. France (Librairie d’Art Louis Reynaud, 52 Rue d’Assas, Paris 6), frs. 170 post free. Italy (Galleria Pesaro, Via Manzoni 12a. Milan), L.110. U.S.A. (Published under the title “The London Studio”), $5.00, by the Studio Publications Incorporated, 381 Fourth Avenue, New York, to whom orders from U.S. readers should be sent for all Studio Publications ADVERTISEMENTS. For advertisement rates apply to the Advertisement Dept., 44 Leicester Square. Copy by 1st of month prior to publication. No responsibility accepted for loss or damage of material or drawings sent to Box Nos. or otherwise in response to advertisements. LONDON: THE STUDIO LIMITED, 44 LEICESTER SQUARE, W.C.2 Telephone: Whitehall 3267 (two lines) Telegrams: Rhombic, London AD. II
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LEICESTER GALLERIES LEICESTER SQUARE, LONDON OCTOBER EXHIBITIONS 10 to 6 daily (1) Paintings, Drawings & Etchings by JEAN FRELAUT (2) Flower Paintings & Landscapes by BEATRICE BLAND The Sign of $\text{WS}$ Fine Design THE WARNER FABRICS illustrated in the “Fine Craftsmanship Supplement” and other of these delightful materials, in both contemporary and period styles, may be obtained from all the leading decorators and furnishers. There is a WARNER FABRIC to complete every decorating scheme. Woven at Braintree Printed at Dartford WARNER & SONS LTD., 10-13 Newgate St., London, E.C.1. Central 2268 (4 lines) --- MODERN CHINA PATTERNS - (Right). S.130. A tea set in white bone china with silver lustre handles and a decoration of narrow lines in russet red. A tea set for 6 persons (21 pieces) costs about £1 19s. 9d. - (Left). S.141. A pear shape coffee set in white bone china, decorated with ice blue bands in graduating tones and jet black handles. The same design is available with green bands (S.140) or yellow bands (S.139). A coffee set costs about 25s. Josiah Wedgwood & Sons, Ltd. Dept. 45, Etruria, Stoke-on-Trent. WEDGWOOD AD. III
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OCTOBER EXHIBITIONS ARLINGTON GALLERY, 22 Old Bond Street, W.1. Closed (Secretary in attendance). BRITISH MUSEUM, Great Russell Street, W.C.1. Ancient Sculpture, Antiquities, Books and Manuscripts. Other exhibitions: English Bookbindings, Prints and Drawings. Chinese Paintings. 10–6 daily (Sundays 2–6). BROOK STREET GALLERY, 14 Brook Street, W.1. 21st September–4th October. Paintings and Drawings by W. H. Rean. 5th–14th October. Portraits by Mary Packe. Paintings of Children by Phyllis Hefeltine. 23rd–28th October. Paintings by Ethel Towner. IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM, South Kensington, S.W.7. Permanent Exhibition of Works executed by Artists during the War. 10–6 daily (Sundays 2.30–6). JOHNSON GALLERY, 5 Kensington High Street, W.8. Exhibition of Water-colour Sketches, chiefly of Malta and the Scottish Highlands, by I. M. Cadell, Edinburgh, for 2 weeks from October 24th. Daily 10–6. Saturdays 10–1. LEICESTER GALLERIES, Leicester Square, W.C.2. (1) Jean Frélaut—Paintings, Drawings and Etchings. (2) Beatrice Bland—Flower Paintings and Landscapes. Admission 1s. NATIONAL GALLERY, Trafalgar Square, W.C.2. Old Masters of every School, 10 a.m. to dusk (Sundays 2 p.m. to dusk). Thursdays and Fridays 6d.; other days free. NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY, St. Martin’s Place, W.C.2. Permanent Exhibition of Portraits. (Lectures 3 p.m.; Monday–Friday.) 10–6 (Thursdays and Fridays 10–5; Sundays 2.30–5.30). Thursdays and Fridays 6d.; other days free. R.B.A. GALLERY, $ \frac{6}{2} $ Suffolk Street, Pall Mall, S.W.1. (1) Army Officers Art Society (closes 7th). (2) New English Art Club (opens 19th). 10–5 daily. Admission 1s. REDFERN GALLERY, 27 Old Bond Street, W.1. Oils, Watercolours and Drawings by George Bissill. RED ROSE GUILD OF ARTWORKERS, Houldsworth Hall, Deansgate, Manchester. Exhibition and Sale of Applied Art and Craftwork. October 19th–26th. ROYAL INSTITUTE GALLERIES, 195 Piccadilly, W.1. 50th Annual Exhibition of The Royal Institute of Oil Painters (opens 12th) 10–5. Admission 1s. ROYAL PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY, 35 Russell Square, W.C.1. Annual International Exhibition (closes 7th) 10–9 daily (Tuesdays and Fridays 10–6). TATE GALLERY, Millbank, S.W.1. British and Foreign Modern Painting and Sculpture. 10 till dusk daily (Sundays 2 till dusk). Tuesdays and Wednesdays 6d.; other days free. TOOTH’S GALLERY, 155 New Bond Street, W.1. (1) Recent Purchases by National Art Gallery of New South Wales (prior to shipment) (closes 7th); (2) Paintings by Allan Walton (opens 11th). VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM, South Kensington, S.W.7. Permanent Exhibition. Special Exhibitions: (1) Woodcuts and Wood-engravings—Room 72. (2) Paintings of a Century Ago (1830–1835)—Room 87, Department of Paintings. (3) New Acquisitions—in the Central Court. 10–6 daily (Sundays 2.30–6). WALKER’S GALLERIES, 118 New Bond Street, W.1. (1) Portraits by I. M. Cohen, R.P., R.O.I. (opens 11th). (2) Rome, Switzerland, the Riviera, etc.—Watercolours by Mrs. Basil Johnson (Bessie Percival) (opens 18th). WALLACE COLLECTION, Manchester Square, W.1. Permanent Exhibition of Paintings, Sculpture, Furniture and Armour. 10–5 daily (Sundays 2–5). Tuesdays and Fridays 6d.; other days free. ZWEMMER GALLERY, 26 Litchfield Street, Charing Cross Road, W.C.2. Water-colour Drawings by Edward Bawden. All Galleries open 10–6, Sats. 10–1, and admission free, unless otherwise stated. Applications for entries on this page should be addressed to ART EXHIBITIONS BUREAU, 3-5 Burlington Gardens, W.1 AD. IV
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STUDIO COLOUR REPRODUCTIONS for THE MODERN HOME YOU NEED NO LONGER FEEL that good pictures by living artists are beyond your reach. For years they have been the prerogative of the wealthy—but at last the artist’s work is brought within the limits of the slenderest purse. THE STUDIO, for forty years the leader in art publications, offers you your choice of a series of colour prints of an outstanding beauty and quality never given before at such low cost. Famous painters have lent whole-hearted support to this endeavour to make available for all lovers of beautiful things pictures such as the majority could not previously afford. 1. WINTER, NORTH ATLANTIC, by Frank H. Mason, R.I. 2. THE YOUNG ROWER, by Lancelot M. Glasson. 3. H.M.Y. BRITANNIA RACING AT TOR BAY, by Norman Wilkinson, R.I., R.O.I. 4. MORE THAN SHADOWS, by W. Russell Flint, R.A. 5. PLATINUM BLONDE, by Lewis Baumer, R.I. 6. THE SLEEPING BEAUTY, by Edmund Dulac. MORE THAN SHADOWS By W. Russell Flint, R.A. (Reduced miniature reproduction) --- QUALITY Perfect reproductions, each handsomely mounted, and displaying that faithfulness to the colours of the original for which The Studio is noted. SIZE The pictures themselves average 15 by 12 inches, and the mounts 25 by 20 inches. Just right for the walls of the modern house or flat. ARTISTS All of acknowledged genius, known and admired the world over—esteemed by critics, sought after by collectors. SUBJECTS Colourful, vivid, contemporary, of intense human interest—appealing to every eye, suiting each individual taste. --- PRICE 5s NET EACH IN HANDSOME MOUNT Postage 1s. each extra Now Ready --- THE STUDIO LTD., 44 LEICESTER SQUARE, LONDON, W.C.2 AD. VI
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