Studio: international art (57.1913)

Reviews and Notices

“AFTER THE BI.IZZARD

FROM THE OIL TAINTING BY CHARLES MORRIS YOUNG
(See Philadelphia Studio-Talk, p. 84)

deceased painter, who during his tenure of the office
of Keeper was also ex officio head of the Schools.
The memorial is the joint work of two past stu-
dents who passed through the Schools of Sculpture
and Architecture respectively during Mr. Crofts’
keepership—Mr. Allan G. Wyon, sculptor, and Mr.
Basil Oliver, architect, both now practising in
London.

The School of Art Wood-Carving, 39 Thurloe
Place, South Kensington, has been reopened after
the usual summer vacation, and we are requested
to state that some of the free studentships in the
evening classes maintained by means of funds
granted to the school by the London County
Council are vacant. The day classes of the school
are held from 9 to 1 and 2 to 5 on five days of the
week, and from 9 to 1 on Saturdays. The evening
class meets on three evenings a week and on
Saturday afternoons. Forms of application for
the free studentships and any further particulars

relating to the school may be obtained from the
secretary.

REVIEWS AND NOTICES.

The Classic Point of View. By Kenyon Cox.
(London : T. Werner Laurie.) 6t. net.—Mr. Kenyon
Cox tells us that his pages—forming the substance
of the Scammon Lectures delivered last year at the
Art Institute of Chicago—will be found to contain
a statement, as clear as he can make it, of what
one painter believes and hopes and fears with
regard to painting; of what he takes to be the
malady of modern art, and of where he looks for
the remedy for it. He speaks both to those young
artists who have, to some extent, the future of
American art in their hands, and to the general
public whose influence upon our art is exercised by
its patronage or refusal. He defines the classic spirit
well when he says it strives for the essential rather
than the accidental, and he rightly dissociates it

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