International studio (26.1905)

FIRST YEAR DRAWING BY MISS JEAN ARMINGTON
ERIC PAPE SCHOOL OF ART
modern industrial life even the laboring classes
have ceased to be manual workers, and are merely
machine tenders. A hundred years ago every
woman, however rich, used her hands in creative
work; to-day, however poor, she stands and
watches the automatic shuttle do her work. What
wonder that the race adds to its nervous diseases
year by year! Handicraft may not bring striking
returns in money wealth, but it will mean to the
nation where it develops a happy, healthy race.
And as we try to realize vividly what joy and health
mean, let us squarely face the fact that most people
are in a hot race to produce things of no account in
order to exchange them for things of less account.
To this tendency handicraft offers a wholesome
check.
But the highest promise of the revival of handi-
crafts is undoubtedly in relation to the agricultural
population. One of the most pressing problems
facing modern nations is how to keep the people in
the country. Life in the village and on the farm
lacks interest. Humanity must have an outlet fol-
ks creative aspirations. And should the blood be
quickened not only on one Westchester farm, but
on all farms, by occupations suited to our longing

ERIC PAPE SCHOOL OF ART
RED CHALK LIFE DRAWING BY N. 1. BLACK
SILVER MEDAL AND SCHOLARSHIP

for the permanent and beautiful, then the product
of that art instinct, though it were consumed at
home, would be seen in a large and deep sense to
"pay" the worker and to "pay " the nation.

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] ' CLEVER work in drawing of the nude
_y marked the latest exhibition of the work
of the Eric Pape School of Art, in Boston.
The nude, of course, is the severest test for students,
and that it has here been managed with much
success and originality will, we think, be suggested
by the reproduction of the life drawing by Norman
1. Black, which we show herewith. Mr. Black's
work has aroused considerable interest. He
showed some outdoor sketching in lead pencil,
which was particularly well done. With L. G.
Hornby he carried off the honors in this style of
work. Mr. Hornby also had on view good work
with the pen and a few etchings on copper, besides


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