International studio (36.1908/1909(1909))

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BY MARY CRABTREE

competitions for these prizes are among the most
popuiar features of the curriculum. The Taverner
prizes were awarded to Mr. Ernest Eason for a head
from the iife in oii, to Miss Giadys H. Mason for
the best head painted in a limited period as a time
test, and to Mr. Arthur M. Boss for time studies
of drapery and costume. Mr. Boss was aiso
awarded the Birkbeck Coiiege Studentship and
one of the Mason prizes for outline studies of
hands. Another Mason prize was awarded to
Miss Irene Butterworth for her interesting coiour-
designs for book iiiustration, and a third to
Mr. R. J. Day for stiii-iife painting. Miss Aibinia
M. Adams gained the Hardy prize for painting
Howers from nature, and Miss Sybii M. Drummond
the Hoiden prize for her delicate outiine studies in
pencil of oak leaves, white azaieas and ivy.
Mr. Percy W. Meredew took a King's prize for the
drawing of a group from memory, and the Sketch
Ciub prizes were carried off by Miss Lydia Bain-
bridge (hgure) and Mr. D. R. Edwards (iandscape).
Miss Emily Connal's ciever iittie sketch of a
steam tug on the Thames with the Tower Bridge
in the background, and the rough but essentiaiiy
characteristic modei of a man's head by Miss Norah
Gowan, were both of more than average merit, and
a special word of praise is due to the originality of
design and execution shown in a panel for a screen
in canvas and siik decorated with a fuli-iength
hgure of a girl and embroidered roses and butter-
Hies. The panel was designed by Miss Irene
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Butterworth and Miss Giadys H. Mason, and
executed by the iast-named student.

The two studies of animals that illustrate these
notes were made by Miss Olive Branson and Miss
Mary Crabtree, pupils of Mr. W. Frank Calderon,
of the School of Animal Painting in Baker Street,
whose students have just concluded a success-
ful course of outdoor work in Norfolk, at Burnham
Deepdale. The piece of wood-carving is a detail
of an oak reredos which was recently designed by
Mr. A. E. Martin, A.R.C.A., for Lady Alice Eyre,
who has presented it to the Church of Middleton
Tyas, Yorks., as a memorial to her husband. The
carving was executed at the School of Art Wood-
Carving, South Kensington, where Mr. Martin
takes one of the evening classes. The school is,
we believe, the only institution in this country
solely devoted to the craft, and is partly maintained
by the London County Council, who grant free
studentships under certain conditions. We are
asked to state that some of these studentships are
now vacant. W. T. W.
H "iDINBURGH.—A great forward step in
) ^ the teaching of pure and applied art has
g been taken this year in the establishment
of the Edinburgh CoIIege of Art, which
is intended to be the art training centre for the
whole of the east of Scotland. Hitherto art teach-
ing has been in the hands of the Royal Institution