International studio (30.1906/1907(1907))

Studio-Talk


PANEL: “ ST. VERONICA”
not been extended to an English student for forty
years; he also won the Gold Medal of his year.
Mr. Millard, who is still a young man, has settled
down in his native town, and in his studio there is
doing excellent work in a quiet unostentatious way.
He not long since executed a series of ornamental
spandrils for the new Municipal Fire Station in
the City of Manchester. The bust reproduced
is that of his brother.

BY ALEXANDER FISHER
noons are devoted to poster designing and black-
and-white work. During the winter session,
recently inaugurated, it is proposed to hold
evening classes for those unable to attend during
the day.

The time sketching class in the evenings at St.
Martin’s School of Art has resulted in the happily

There is no contemporary artist-
craftsman whose work is followed
with greater interest by the public
to whom such things as enamelling
appeal than Mr. Alexander Fisher.
The artist allows but little time to
pass without making some fresh re-
velation of his skill or carrying his
art in enamelling to a further point of
perfection. We give an illustration of
a panel representing the story of St.
Veronica, which has recently left
his studio, and which is in every
way characteristic of the artist’s
best work.
Poster designing, we are glad to
observe, is receiving increasing at-
tention at art schools. Thus at the
school started last January by Mr.
Dudley Hardy and Mr. John Hassall
the entire curriculum has been
framed with special reference to this
branch of art. Here the mornings
are set apart for drawing from the
life, the classes for which are under
the charge of Mr. Charles van Haver-
rnaet, who was Mr. Hassall’s first
drawing master, while the after-
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TIME STUDY

BY W. SEYMOUR