The Studio (magazine)

The Studio was founded by Charles Holme in 1893.{{r|ashmore|page=145}} Holme was in the wool and silk trades, had travelled extensively in Europe and had visited Japan and the United States with Lasenby Liberty and his wife Emma.{{r|ashmore|page=145}} During his travels he had formed:{{r|holme|p=5|taxi|p2=6}} {{blockquote|... the idea of an art magazine crystallised around his recurring observation that the chief barrier between countries was language, and his belief that the more the culture of one part of the world could be brought "visually" to the attention of another, the greater the chance of international understanding and peace.}} He retired from trade in order to start The Studio.{{r|ashmore|page=145}}

He had hoped to engage Lewis Hind as the editor of the new venture, but Hind went instead to William Waldorf Astor's Pall Mall Budget. He suggested Joseph Gleeson White as an alternative.{{r|beegan}} Gleeson White edited The Studio from the first issue in April 1893.{{r|rossetti}} In 1895 Holme took over as editor himself, although Gleeson White continued to contribute. Holme retired as editor in 1919 for reasons of health, and was succeeded by his son Charles Geoffrey Holme, who was already the editor of special numbers and year-books of the magazine.{{r|dnb}}

The magazine was monthly; 853 issues were published between April 1893 and May 1964.

The Studio promoted the work of "New Art" artists, designers and architects. It played a major part in introducing the work of Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Charles Voysey to a wide audience, and was especially influential in Europe.{{r|fiell|page=9}}

In keeping with Holme's original concept, the magazine was international in scope. A French edition was published in Paris, differing from the English one only in that the spine and parts of the cover were printed in French, and there was an insert consisting of a French translation of the article text and some French advertisements.

The American edition was titled The International Studio. It had its own editorial staff, and the content was different from that of the English edition, although many articles from that were reprinted. It was published in New York by John Lane & Company from May 1897 until 1921, and by International Studio, Inc., from 1922 until publication ceased in 1931.

In 1894 and then from 1896 on, special numbers of the magazine were also published, normally three times a year. These carried various titles; 117 of them were issued between 1894 and 1940.{{r|roberts}}

From 1906 onwards The Studio published an annual, The Studio Year-Book of Decorative Art, which dealt with architecture, interior design and design of furniture, lighting, glassware, textiles, metalwork and ceramics. These annuals promoted Modernism in the 1920s, and later the Good Design movement.{{r|fiell|page=9}}

The last edition was published in May 1964, after which it was absorbed into Studio International.

File:Cover of The Studio vol. 53 no. 219, June 1911.jpeg|Cover of the Paris edition of The Studio, volume 53 no. 219, June 1911

File:Léon Solon The Studio.jpg|Poster by Léon-Victor Solon advertising The Studio

File:The_Studio_Year-Book_1906.jpg|Cover of the first Year-Book, 1906

Special numbers of The Studio were edited by the Holmes for separate publication as books.[https://search.worldcat.org/search?q=%22Peasant+art%22+%2B+%22The+Studio%22&offset=1 "Peasant art" + "The Studio"], worldcat.org. Retrieved 6 February 2025. In addition the following book series were issued:

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• Currier & Ives Prints
• Famous Sporting Prints[https://search.worldcat.org/title/2593735 Famous Sporting Prints], worldcat.org. Retrieved 6 February 2025.
• Famous Water-Colour Painters[https://search.worldcat.org/search?q=%22Famous+Water-Colour+Painters%22&offset=1 Famous Water-Colour Painters], worldcat.org. Retrieved 6 February 2025.
• The Gardens of England[https://search.worldcat.org/title/905689939 The gardens of England...], worldcat.org. Retrieved 6 February 2025.
• Hours of Leisure Series[https://search.worldcat.org/title/504340346 Hours of Leisure Series...Edited by W.P. Robins], worldcat.org. Retrieved 6 February 2025.
• How To Do It Series[https://search.worldcat.org/title/560289384 "How to do it" Series], worldcat.org. Retrieved 6 February 2025.
• How to Draw[https://search.worldcat.org/title/887774231 How to Draw series], worldcat.org. Retrieved 6 February 2025.
• Make It Yourself Series (a.k.a. A Make It Yourself Book series)[https://search.worldcat.org/title/561495793 "Make it Yourself" Series], worldcat.org. Retrieved 6 February 2025.
• Master Draughtsmen[https://search.worldcat.org/search?q=%22Master+Draughtsmen%22+%2B+Studio&offset=1 "Master Draughtsmen" + Studio], worldcat.org. Retrieved 6 February 2025.
• Masters of Painting[https://search.worldcat.org/title/16719150 Masters of painting], worldcat.org. Retrieved 6 February 2025.
• Masters of the Colour Print[https://search.worldcat.org/search?q=%22Masters+of+the+Colour+Print%22+%2B+Studio&offset=1 "Masters of the Colour Print" + Studio], worldcat.org. Retrieved 6 February 2025.
• Modern Masters of Etching[https://search.worldcat.org/title/61626528 Modern masters of etching], worldcat.org. Retrieved 6 February 2025. (sometimes referred on dustjackets as Masters of Etching)
• Modern Photography
• The New Vision[https://search.worldcat.org/search?q=%22The+New+Vision%22+%2B+Studio&offset=1 "The New Vision" + Studio], worldcat.org. Retrieved 6 February 2025.Marta Sequeira, [https://www.estudoprevio.net/aircraft-de-le-corbusier/?lang=en AIRCRAFT BY LE CORBUSIER], estudoprevio.net. Retrieved 7 February 2025.
• The Studio Painting Series[https://search.worldcat.org/title/20927644 The Studio painting series], worldcat.org. Retrieved 6 February 2025.
• Treasures of Art[https://search.worldcat.org/search?q=%22Treasures+of+Art%22+%2B+Studio&offset=1 "Treasures of Art" + Studio], worldcat.org. Retrieved 6 February 2025.
• Treasures of Illumination[https://search.worldcat.org/search?q=%22Treasures+of+Illumination%22+Studio&offset=1 "Treasures of Illumination" Studio], worldcat.org. Retrieved 10 February 2025.
• The World's Masters[https://search.worldcat.org/title/721540132 The World's Masters...A series, each containing 24 photogravure illustrations], worldcat.org. Retrieved 6 February 2025.
• The World's Masters: New Series[https://search.worldcat.org/title/1414804590 World's Masters. New Series], worldcat.org. Retrieved 6 February 2025.[https://search.worldcat.org/search?q=se%3AThe%20world%27s%20masters%20:%20new%20series se:The world's masters : new series], worldcat.org. Retrieved 6 February 2025.

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Sonia Ashmore (2002). [https://books.google.it/books?id=S6z2b44ksNUC&hl=en Lasenby Liberty (1843–1917) and Japan], in: Britain & Japan: biographical portraits. Volume IV. London: Routledge. Accessed June 2013.

Gerry Beegan (2007). [https://www.jstor.org/stable/25224132 The Studio: Photomechanical Reproduction and the Changing Status of Design]. Design Issues. The MIT Press. 23 (4): 46–61. {{subscription required}}.

Julie F. Codell (2004). [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/33950 Holme, Charles (1848–1923)]. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press; online edition, May 2008. {{doi|10.1093/ref:odnb/33950}}. Accessed June 2013. {{subscription required}}

Charlotte J. Fiell, Peter M. Fiell (2000). 1900s 1910s decorative art: a source book. Köln; New York: Taschen. {{ISBN|9783822860502}}.

Bryan Holme (1978). The Studio: A Bibliography. The First Fifty Years 1893–1943. London: Simms and Reed; cited in: Olga Taxidou (1998).

Helene E. Roberts (1970). [https://www.jstor.org/stable/20084845 British Art Periodicals of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries]. Victorian Periodicals Newsletter No. 9. The Johns Hopkins University Press on behalf of the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals. 3 (3): 60. {{subscription required}}.

Kevin P. Rodel, Jonathan Binzen (2003). [https://books.google.it/books?id=4PZ8EJeNbwgC&pg=PA15&hl=en Arts & crafts furniture: from classic to contemporary]. Newtown, Connecticut: Taunton Press. {{ISBN|1561583596}}.

Jerome J. McGann (editor) [http://www.rossettiarchive.org/docs/n1.s9.69.raw.html Scholarly Commentary – Introduction: The Studio. London: Studio Ltd., 1893-1964]. The Complete Writings and Pictures of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, online. Accessed June 2013.

Olga Taxidou (1998). [https://books.google.it/books?id=9wAKmtbOz_kC&pg=PA6&hl=en The Mask: A Periodical Performance by Edward Gordon Craig]. Contemporary Theatre Studies, Volume 30. Amsterdam: Harwood Academic. {{ISBN|9789057550454}}.

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• Ruth Artmonsky (2024). The Studio Ltd.: A Family Affair, Artmonsky Arts. 9781738501618.
• Clive Ashwin (1983). "The Early Studio and Its Illustrations". Studio International 196 (1003): 22–29.
• Clive Ashwin (1976). "The Studio and Modernism: A Periodical's Progress". Studio International 192 (983): 103–112.
• D.J. Gordon (1968). "Dilemmas: The Studio in 1893-4". Studio International 175 (899): 175–183.

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• [http://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/studio Full text] of issues 1–90, covering 1893 to 1925.

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