DOI Heft:
No. 138 (august, 1908)
DOI Artikel:Art school notes
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.28255#0182
Art School Notes
drawing is to be
reproduced. The
poster designs were
judged by a com-
mittee composed of
Mr. Cecil Aldin,
R.B.A., Mr. Tom
Browne, R.I., and
the Editor of The
Studio, and the first
prize was awarded
to Miss Margaret
McCormack, of
Bristol, for a simple
and effective com-
position advertising
a popular chocolate.
Miss McCormack
carried off the
second prize in the
same competition
last year. The
second prize on the
present occasion fell
to Mr. Vernon Hill,
of Halifax, whose
humorous study in
black-and-white was
also a chocolate
advertisement. The
third was given to
Mr. Leslie M. Ward,
of Bournemouth, for
a design of an
ancient war-galley on a moonlit sea, advertising
preserved milk, and executed chiefly in purples
and rich greys. The designs of Miss Winifred
Christie, Mr. Alfred France, Miss Dorothy Le
B. Smith, and Miss Gladys Shortridge were
selected by the judges as deserving of honourable
mention.
DESIGN FOR PROCESSIONAL
CROSS IN SILVER GILT AND
OXIDISED
BY MAY EDITH PURSER
( Goldstniths’ Coll., New Cross)
Students who have sent to Burlington House
this month the elaborate studies demanded from
the competitors in the entrance examinations at
the Royal Academy schools have good reason to
envy the lot of the young artist of an earlier gene-
ration. From him were required no painted heads,
no studies from the living nude, or evidences of
capacity to design. It was sufficient for him
merely to show the Keeper a drawing from the
antique. If the Keeper liked it, he could admit
the student as a probationer, and if the drawing
done in the probationary period were as good^as
164
the one first submitted, the whole business was
settled. It appears, however, that there were
formalities a century ago that the Academy hap-
pily has outlived. When William Bewick took his
drawing to Somerset House he was warned by his
friends that it was necessary to give a shilling
to the Royal Academy porter, but he declined,
“ despising this underhanded bribing work,” and,
curiously, his drawing was rejected. But the
orderly, well-arranged institution of to-day has in
most respects little in common with the Academy
schools of Bewick’s time, when the students at
Somerset House used to amuse themselves by
melting the tallow candles by whose light they
worked, and making slides with them on the
floor; or even with the schools of a later period,
when Etty, a man of sixty, and an Academician
of twenty years’ standing, was the most constant
and assiduous worker in the life class. Probably
very few of the students now working at the Royal
Academy are aware that the class in which Etty
did the best of those remarkable studies that col-
lectors are now beginning to appreciate was held
in the dome above the present National Gallery.
That was the life school of the Royal Academy
sixty years'ago. W. T. W.
STENCILLED WALL DECORATION
DESIGNED BY DAVID JOHNSTONE
( Glasgow and West of Scotland Technical College)
drawing is to be
reproduced. The
poster designs were
judged by a com-
mittee composed of
Mr. Cecil Aldin,
R.B.A., Mr. Tom
Browne, R.I., and
the Editor of The
Studio, and the first
prize was awarded
to Miss Margaret
McCormack, of
Bristol, for a simple
and effective com-
position advertising
a popular chocolate.
Miss McCormack
carried off the
second prize in the
same competition
last year. The
second prize on the
present occasion fell
to Mr. Vernon Hill,
of Halifax, whose
humorous study in
black-and-white was
also a chocolate
advertisement. The
third was given to
Mr. Leslie M. Ward,
of Bournemouth, for
a design of an
ancient war-galley on a moonlit sea, advertising
preserved milk, and executed chiefly in purples
and rich greys. The designs of Miss Winifred
Christie, Mr. Alfred France, Miss Dorothy Le
B. Smith, and Miss Gladys Shortridge were
selected by the judges as deserving of honourable
mention.
DESIGN FOR PROCESSIONAL
CROSS IN SILVER GILT AND
OXIDISED
BY MAY EDITH PURSER
( Goldstniths’ Coll., New Cross)
Students who have sent to Burlington House
this month the elaborate studies demanded from
the competitors in the entrance examinations at
the Royal Academy schools have good reason to
envy the lot of the young artist of an earlier gene-
ration. From him were required no painted heads,
no studies from the living nude, or evidences of
capacity to design. It was sufficient for him
merely to show the Keeper a drawing from the
antique. If the Keeper liked it, he could admit
the student as a probationer, and if the drawing
done in the probationary period were as good^as
164
the one first submitted, the whole business was
settled. It appears, however, that there were
formalities a century ago that the Academy hap-
pily has outlived. When William Bewick took his
drawing to Somerset House he was warned by his
friends that it was necessary to give a shilling
to the Royal Academy porter, but he declined,
“ despising this underhanded bribing work,” and,
curiously, his drawing was rejected. But the
orderly, well-arranged institution of to-day has in
most respects little in common with the Academy
schools of Bewick’s time, when the students at
Somerset House used to amuse themselves by
melting the tallow candles by whose light they
worked, and making slides with them on the
floor; or even with the schools of a later period,
when Etty, a man of sixty, and an Academician
of twenty years’ standing, was the most constant
and assiduous worker in the life class. Probably
very few of the students now working at the Royal
Academy are aware that the class in which Etty
did the best of those remarkable studies that col-
lectors are now beginning to appreciate was held
in the dome above the present National Gallery.
That was the life school of the Royal Academy
sixty years'ago. W. T. W.
STENCILLED WALL DECORATION
DESIGNED BY DAVID JOHNSTONE
( Glasgow and West of Scotland Technical College)