DOI Heft:
No. 138 (august, 1908)
DOI Artikel:Art school notes
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.28255#0181
Art School Notes
directed by one of the most accomplished and
original of modem draughtsmen, Mr. Edmund J.
Sullivan, A.R.W.S. A new painting school, in-
tended particularly for advanced students, will
also be opened in September, and to conduct
this the College has been fortunate enough to
secure the services of Mr. Harold Speed. There
is a chance, too, that a special class will be formed
for the advanced modeller, in which he will have
the advice of a distinguished sculptor.
The head master of the School of Art at the
Goldsmiths’ College is Mr. Frederick Marriott,
the artist whose beautiful decorative work in
mother-of-pearl and gesso is one of the features of
the supplementary exhibition at the New Gallery
of handicrafts and applied arts, and he is assisted
by Mr. W. Amor Fenn, Mr. Percy Buckman, Mr.
Frederick Halnon, Mr. F. John Sedgewick and
Mr. W. Lee Hankey. Mr. Lee Hankey is a new-
comer at the school, but his etching class, although
it has only been in existence a few months, is
already a pronounced success. He has spared no
pains or trouble in the development of his class,
and, working with the students, instructs them in
the most thorough and practical manner in the
whole practice of the etcher’s art. There are
strong classes for design (under Mr. Amor Fenn)
and for technical instruction in jewellery and
enamelling, in which Mr. F. John Sedgewick is
the instructor. The future of this great school,
which enjoys the active support of one of the
wealthiest of the City Companies, should be worth
watching. With its new studios and its new and
well directed developments it has opportunities
that are possible to comparatively few schools, and
its position within a stone’s throw of New Cross
station and of a network of tramways makes it
peculiarly accessible to a large proportion of the
residents of the south and south-eastern suburbs.
The students at this school have all the recreative
advantages of the Goldsmiths’ College, which
include tennis courts and a spacious cricket field.
No fewer than a hundred and eighty designs
were submitted in the John Hassall competition
for prizes for poster designs held recently at the
New Art School, Logan Place, Earl’s Court Road.
The drawings
came from all
parts of the
United King-
dom as well as
from the Con-
tinent, and
their quality
was as varied
as their places
of origin. Some
were good
enough, but in
too many in-
stances the let-
tering was weak
and the artists
showed that
they were
insufficiently
equipped with
the special
technical know-
ledge indis-
pensable to the
poster designer,
who when
working in
colour must
never lose sight
of the limita-
tions of cost
and of the
DESIGN FOR ALTAR CROSS IN
powers of the wrought brass with oxidised
printers by SILVER I>ANBLS
/ BY FLORENCE RIMINGTON
whom his fGoldsmiths' College New Cross)
163
LIMERICK LACE BY MARGARET MACDONNEL
(Goldsmiths' College, New Cross)
directed by one of the most accomplished and
original of modem draughtsmen, Mr. Edmund J.
Sullivan, A.R.W.S. A new painting school, in-
tended particularly for advanced students, will
also be opened in September, and to conduct
this the College has been fortunate enough to
secure the services of Mr. Harold Speed. There
is a chance, too, that a special class will be formed
for the advanced modeller, in which he will have
the advice of a distinguished sculptor.
The head master of the School of Art at the
Goldsmiths’ College is Mr. Frederick Marriott,
the artist whose beautiful decorative work in
mother-of-pearl and gesso is one of the features of
the supplementary exhibition at the New Gallery
of handicrafts and applied arts, and he is assisted
by Mr. W. Amor Fenn, Mr. Percy Buckman, Mr.
Frederick Halnon, Mr. F. John Sedgewick and
Mr. W. Lee Hankey. Mr. Lee Hankey is a new-
comer at the school, but his etching class, although
it has only been in existence a few months, is
already a pronounced success. He has spared no
pains or trouble in the development of his class,
and, working with the students, instructs them in
the most thorough and practical manner in the
whole practice of the etcher’s art. There are
strong classes for design (under Mr. Amor Fenn)
and for technical instruction in jewellery and
enamelling, in which Mr. F. John Sedgewick is
the instructor. The future of this great school,
which enjoys the active support of one of the
wealthiest of the City Companies, should be worth
watching. With its new studios and its new and
well directed developments it has opportunities
that are possible to comparatively few schools, and
its position within a stone’s throw of New Cross
station and of a network of tramways makes it
peculiarly accessible to a large proportion of the
residents of the south and south-eastern suburbs.
The students at this school have all the recreative
advantages of the Goldsmiths’ College, which
include tennis courts and a spacious cricket field.
No fewer than a hundred and eighty designs
were submitted in the John Hassall competition
for prizes for poster designs held recently at the
New Art School, Logan Place, Earl’s Court Road.
The drawings
came from all
parts of the
United King-
dom as well as
from the Con-
tinent, and
their quality
was as varied
as their places
of origin. Some
were good
enough, but in
too many in-
stances the let-
tering was weak
and the artists
showed that
they were
insufficiently
equipped with
the special
technical know-
ledge indis-
pensable to the
poster designer,
who when
working in
colour must
never lose sight
of the limita-
tions of cost
and of the
DESIGN FOR ALTAR CROSS IN
powers of the wrought brass with oxidised
printers by SILVER I>ANBLS
/ BY FLORENCE RIMINGTON
whom his fGoldsmiths' College New Cross)
163
LIMERICK LACE BY MARGARET MACDONNEL
(Goldsmiths' College, New Cross)