Word: ornamenting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...close relationship with a building of Georgian type. Those tower in Oxford which is placed on a building of pure Gothic, designed by Sir Christopher Wren, cannot fail to realize the close relationship between the two. The general impression conveyed by the tower is that of some exotic ornament, grafted onto a simple New England colonial base. The success which the same architects achieved in the plan for the tower of Lowell House only serves to bring this discrepancy into greater relief...
...which sleek, pastel-tinted automobiles were pictured in great vaulted salons or beneath the towers of fabulous cities. Most numerous of Cleland's work are borders and title pages in the Renaissance spirit-filigrees of twining tendrils, urns, cherubs, plaques, a gay, lacy profusion of Italianate ornament. Of these his book is full, together with title pages, vignettes, elaborate initials, bookplates, watercolors. It is a book to delight lovers of meticulous, traditional beauty...
...Scotch doctor and a U. S. mother, he lived as a boy in Manhattan, attended public schools, shone in elocution rather than drawing. At 15 he entered art school as an excuse to be lazy, which he was, until he watched a fellow student draw classical ornament. Then he felt the fascination which determined all his later work. Soon he was designing alphabets, typography, title pages, serving as apprentice to a profane, drunken, expert pressman in a tiny Manhattan printing shop...
...gazer. After a number of disastrous printing ventures, Cleland came under the tutelage and iron discipline of able Daniel Berkeley Updike, whose work at Boston's famed Merrymount Press raised the entire level of U. S. printing. The true printer's quiet love for arranging type and ornament has never left him-he still supervises the lettering and printing processes of all his work...
...more to say when he read adverse criticisms of Night, his newly-unveiled ornament on the London Underground office building. One pundit had observed...