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Lewis Foreman Day (1845–1910) was a British decorative artist and industrial designer and an important figure in the Arts and Crafts movement.〔("Lewis Foreman Day", Oxford Index )〕 Day's early work was in glass painting. He established his own stained glass business in London but he expanded his activities to a wide range of media, including wallpapers for W. B. Simpson & Co., textiles for Turnbull & Stockdale, and tiles for Maw's and Pilkington's. He was an active member of the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society, one time master of the Art Workers Guild, which he helped found, and a member of the Council of the Royal Society of Arts (RSA) for much of the period between 1877 and his death. He was an influential educator and wrote widely on design and pattern. His Cantor Lectures on Ornamental Design for the RSA〔 (1886) led to a series of publications, including ''The Anatomy of Pattern'' (1887), ''The Planning of Ornament'' (1887), ''Pattern Design'' (1903), ''Ornament and its Application'' (1904), and ''Nature and Ornament'' (1908–9). He published in many journals, including the ''Magazine of Art'', the ''Art Journal'' and the ''Journal of Decorative Art''. Other books were ''Windows'' (1897), ''Stained Glass'' (1903), ''Alphabets Old and New'' (1898) and ''Lettering in Ornament'' (1902). He was an examiner for the Department of Science and Art and later the Board of Education. He lectured at the Royal College of Art (RCA). In 1910 he wrote a dissenting report to the government Committee of Inquiry into the RCA, in which he argued for greater emphasis on principles of design against the growing Arts and Crafts orthodoxy of teaching design by direct working in materials. He served on the consultative committee of the Victoria and Albert Museum when it transferred to its new building in Cromwell Road in 1909, and influenced the arrangement its collections there. His own work is well represented in the museum's collection.〔(Victoria and Albert Museum )〕 His professional association with William Morris and other key figures of the Arts and Crafts movement, such as Walter Crane and W. A. S. Benson, placed him at the centre of contemporary applied arts in Britain, yet, according to his biographer, Joan Maria Hanson, he became neglected in histories of the period.〔Joan Maria Hansen, ''Lewis Foreman Day (1845-1910): Unity in Design and Industry'', Antique Collector's Club, 2007〕 ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lewis Foreman Day」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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