DOI issue:
No. 136 (June, 1908)
DOI article:Art school notes
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.28254#0359
A rt School Notes
This fine building has now been completed, and
the two upper floors are devoted to the class-rooms
and studios of the new Westminster School of Art,
which was inaugurated recently by a three days’
exhibition of the work of the students, executed in
the preceding year. The exhibition included a
selection of drawings and paintings by members of
the Westminster Sketch Club, and some specially
invited work by three old students, Mr. S. Bagot
de la Bere, R.I., Mr. A. Carruthers Gould, R.B.A.,
and Mr. Murray Urquhart. Figure and decorative
design, landscape, and black-and-white were all
represented, and some of the work showed con-
siderable promise, notably the illustrations to fairy
tales by B. S. Pedder and M. W. Patterson, the
vigorously handled landscape by Mrs. Carpmael,
and the sketches made in Cornwall and Sussex by
Miss Uellina W. A. Parkes, which, though slight,
were excellent of their kind. Of the school work
shown, the best examples were of painting and
modelling from the life. Some of this was very
good, but the collection did not fairly represent the
full power of the school, as in the temporary studios
the accommodation for the men’s life classes was
unfortunately limited. In the new building there
are no drawbacks of this kind. The studios are
spacious and beautifully lighted, and the methods
of warming and ventilation all that can be desired,
and with every advantage of position and construc-
tion there should be a great future before the
new Westminster School of Art under Mr.
Mouat Loudan. The new school differs from the
others controlled by the London County Council,
in that its principal object is the study of the
fine arts.
For the student of the applied arts and the
young craftsman, the London County Council has
built a great school in Southampton Row. This
school, designed by Mr. W. E. Riley, the Council’s
architect, will accommodate six or eight hundred
pupils, and it will afford ample scope for practical
instruction in all those branches of the application
of art to industries that hitherto have been studied
in Regent Street under cramped and restricted
conditions. The Central School of Arts and
Crafts will be removed in the summer from Regent
Street to the new quarters in Southampton Row,
where the classes will be opened late in September.
In Southampton Row the interests of the profes-
sional student will of course be the primary con-
sideration, but the amateur will not be wholly
excluded. He is in fact almost indispensable to
the art school with day classes.
Public interest is developing steadily in the
forthcoming Art Congress at South Kensington,
the object of which was explained in these notes
last month. Newfoundland has now fallen in line
with the other Colonies and has voted a thousand
dollars towards the expenses of the International
Exhibition of Students’ Work that is to be opened
in the third week in July. In all parts of the
country preparatory art school exhibitions are being
held with the view of selecting the most represen-
tative works for the great show at Kensington,
where the British contributions will be tested by
comparison with those of America and the Con-
tinent. The Austro-Hungarian Government has
undertaken to bear all the charges of its section,
but in England, where there are no official funds
available, financial help is badly needed. Mr.
Pierpont Morgan has generously given S5°°
towards the ^5,000 required, and the Royal
Academy has contributed ^100,
Nearly 150 paintings and drawings were included
in the recent exhibition at the Bushey School of
Portraiture, which is directed by Mr. Marmaduke
Flower, who formerly assisted Sir Hubert Herkomer
in the well-known school founded by that artist.
The contributions by the pupils of the Bushey
School of Portraiture included book illustrations by
H. & Ida Streeter; oil paintings by H. Hudson,
A. Corbett, B. Lagerberg, E. Ashton, S. Maude,
F. Woodside, and T. Laidman; and miniatures by
T. Butchart, T. Ward, I. F. Laidman, E. A.
Laidman, and T. Wick. Among the water colours
and drawings in black-and-white were studies by
C. L. Yates, E. Laws, D. Ward, A. Boultby, E.
Dust, M. O’Brien, E. Ward, F. Hammond, T.
Carr, A. Frere, E. Leverkus, E. Hunt, A. Brooks,
C. M. Beale, S. Woodside, G. and F. G. Cameron,
S. Newman, and I. F. Laidman. At the Bushey
School of Portraiture the practice is followed of
putting the brush from the first into the hands of
the students, who are taught to draw and paint at
the same time. Every encouragement is given to
attempts at picture making out of school hours,
and of those who intend to adopt portraiture the
more advanced are selected periodically to paint a
half length portrait, during the progress of which
they are closely watched and carefully instructed.
The landscape painting class in connection with
the Bushey School of Portraiture will be held this
year at Llangollen in J uly, August, and September.
At the spring meeting and exhibition of the
Lambeth Art Club some good work was shown by
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This fine building has now been completed, and
the two upper floors are devoted to the class-rooms
and studios of the new Westminster School of Art,
which was inaugurated recently by a three days’
exhibition of the work of the students, executed in
the preceding year. The exhibition included a
selection of drawings and paintings by members of
the Westminster Sketch Club, and some specially
invited work by three old students, Mr. S. Bagot
de la Bere, R.I., Mr. A. Carruthers Gould, R.B.A.,
and Mr. Murray Urquhart. Figure and decorative
design, landscape, and black-and-white were all
represented, and some of the work showed con-
siderable promise, notably the illustrations to fairy
tales by B. S. Pedder and M. W. Patterson, the
vigorously handled landscape by Mrs. Carpmael,
and the sketches made in Cornwall and Sussex by
Miss Uellina W. A. Parkes, which, though slight,
were excellent of their kind. Of the school work
shown, the best examples were of painting and
modelling from the life. Some of this was very
good, but the collection did not fairly represent the
full power of the school, as in the temporary studios
the accommodation for the men’s life classes was
unfortunately limited. In the new building there
are no drawbacks of this kind. The studios are
spacious and beautifully lighted, and the methods
of warming and ventilation all that can be desired,
and with every advantage of position and construc-
tion there should be a great future before the
new Westminster School of Art under Mr.
Mouat Loudan. The new school differs from the
others controlled by the London County Council,
in that its principal object is the study of the
fine arts.
For the student of the applied arts and the
young craftsman, the London County Council has
built a great school in Southampton Row. This
school, designed by Mr. W. E. Riley, the Council’s
architect, will accommodate six or eight hundred
pupils, and it will afford ample scope for practical
instruction in all those branches of the application
of art to industries that hitherto have been studied
in Regent Street under cramped and restricted
conditions. The Central School of Arts and
Crafts will be removed in the summer from Regent
Street to the new quarters in Southampton Row,
where the classes will be opened late in September.
In Southampton Row the interests of the profes-
sional student will of course be the primary con-
sideration, but the amateur will not be wholly
excluded. He is in fact almost indispensable to
the art school with day classes.
Public interest is developing steadily in the
forthcoming Art Congress at South Kensington,
the object of which was explained in these notes
last month. Newfoundland has now fallen in line
with the other Colonies and has voted a thousand
dollars towards the expenses of the International
Exhibition of Students’ Work that is to be opened
in the third week in July. In all parts of the
country preparatory art school exhibitions are being
held with the view of selecting the most represen-
tative works for the great show at Kensington,
where the British contributions will be tested by
comparison with those of America and the Con-
tinent. The Austro-Hungarian Government has
undertaken to bear all the charges of its section,
but in England, where there are no official funds
available, financial help is badly needed. Mr.
Pierpont Morgan has generously given S5°°
towards the ^5,000 required, and the Royal
Academy has contributed ^100,
Nearly 150 paintings and drawings were included
in the recent exhibition at the Bushey School of
Portraiture, which is directed by Mr. Marmaduke
Flower, who formerly assisted Sir Hubert Herkomer
in the well-known school founded by that artist.
The contributions by the pupils of the Bushey
School of Portraiture included book illustrations by
H. & Ida Streeter; oil paintings by H. Hudson,
A. Corbett, B. Lagerberg, E. Ashton, S. Maude,
F. Woodside, and T. Laidman; and miniatures by
T. Butchart, T. Ward, I. F. Laidman, E. A.
Laidman, and T. Wick. Among the water colours
and drawings in black-and-white were studies by
C. L. Yates, E. Laws, D. Ward, A. Boultby, E.
Dust, M. O’Brien, E. Ward, F. Hammond, T.
Carr, A. Frere, E. Leverkus, E. Hunt, A. Brooks,
C. M. Beale, S. Woodside, G. and F. G. Cameron,
S. Newman, and I. F. Laidman. At the Bushey
School of Portraiture the practice is followed of
putting the brush from the first into the hands of
the students, who are taught to draw and paint at
the same time. Every encouragement is given to
attempts at picture making out of school hours,
and of those who intend to adopt portraiture the
more advanced are selected periodically to paint a
half length portrait, during the progress of which
they are closely watched and carefully instructed.
The landscape painting class in connection with
the Bushey School of Portraiture will be held this
year at Llangollen in J uly, August, and September.
At the spring meeting and exhibition of the
Lambeth Art Club some good work was shown by
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