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English Ecclesiastical Interior Design browse these categories for related items... Directory: Fine Art:Paintings:Watercolor: Pre 1920: Item # 278478
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| REGINALD HALLWARD. Design for the painted and decorated altar and reredos in the Chapel of Peace, Saint Cuthbert's Church, Bedford, England, a view from the south aisle. Watercolor on cream card, 7 1/4" x 13 1/2" (184 x 343mm.)(image), 10 5/8" x 15" (270 x 381mm.)(card); unsigned. Some foxing, primarily confined to the (watercolor wash) margins; slight darkening; verso of card quite heavily foxed. No date (circa 1910). Unframed. The title is derived from a similar drawing of the same project from the same perspective formerly in our possession. Reginald Hallward, English interior designer specializing in ecclesiastical design. In the 1880s, Hallward worked with Christopher Whall in Dorking, Surrey. Whall, nine years Hallward's senior, was a tireless, talented and influential proselytizer of the arts/crafts gospel and, judging from Hallward's published statements in periodicals ("Stained Glass," "The Builder"), Whall was in part responsible for Hallward's dislike of the Gothic Revival and its "...copying of mediaeval forms," as well as his insistence (a la the Arts and Crafts Society) on giving "...a renewed impulse to vital craftsmanship and design." Hallward's belief that "...designer and worker...proceed hand in hand" (a further reaction against the perceived separation of the two on the part of the generation of the 1850s and 1860s) suffice to date his training and temperament to the generation of "art" designers of the 1880s. "Beauty is worship as well as prayer," the artist wrote towards the end of his life. "With such an incentive the arts become enormously important. If religion and art are one, the artist is the true 'religious.' In these days of scientific advancement and expert craftsmanship, we must not confuse technical proficiency with the quality to which I refer. Skilled craftsmanship is not enough. The spirit which informs our work is the vital consideration" ("Stained Glass," Vol.34, No.1 (Spring/Summer, 1939)). In just such an expansive spirit, Hallward's ecclesiastical work included commissions for entire interior schemes (wall paintings, altars, multiple-light stained glass windows, the various elements anchored by decorative motifs repeated throughout the buildings), as well as those for individual elements (tablets, memorial windows, hangings, gesso panels, window surrounds). | ||
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