Studio: international art (77.1919)

STUDIO-TALK

WAX FIGURES
BY PHCEBE STABLER

STUDIO-TALK.

(.From our own Correspondents.)

LONDON. — The Executive Com-
mittee of the British School at Rome
has recently received from an anony-
mous source an endowment of a Rome
Scholarship in Engraving to be offered
annually for competition. The scholar-
ship is worth £250 per annum, and is ten-
able for three years at the British School
at Rome. The first competition, to be
held early in 1920, will be conducted by
the newly appointed Faculty of Engraving
of the School, which consists of Sir
Frank Short (chairman), Mr. Muirhead
Bone (hon. secretary), Mr. Frank Brang-
wyn, Mr. D. Y. Cameron, Mr. Campbell
Dodgson, Mr. Charles Shannon, and Mr.
William Strang. The term u engraving ”
includes for the time being the following
processes: line-engraving, etching, soft-
ground etching, dry-point etching, mezzo-
tint, aquatint, stipple, wood-engraving, and
lithography. Candidates must be British
subjects under thirty years of age on July 1
of the year in which the competition is
held. Full particulars regarding the first

competition can be obtained from the
Honorary General Secretary, The British
School at Rome, 54 Victoria Street, S.W.i.

The annual report of the Association of
Old Students of the Royal College of Art,
of which Mr. Alexander Fisher is president,
gives in full the scheme submitted to the
Board of Education for the reconstruction
and reorganization of the College. Under
this scheme it is proposed that the College
should be raised to the rank and status of
a University of Art, with power to grant
degrees. a a 0 a a
A new organization has been recently
inaugurated under the title of the Arts
League of Service, the object of which is
“ to establish a closer bond between the
community and the artist, to create in the
public a greater interest in his work, and to
rouse in the artist an understanding of the
community and its needs.” The president
of the League is Lord Henry Cavendish-
Bentinck, and its programme of work in-
cludes exhibitions, lectures on art, and per-
formances of drama, dance, and music
throughout the country. The offices are
at 1 Robert Street, Adelphi. a 0
The tenderly modelled little wax figures

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