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were amusingly recorded not long ago in a popular
magazine. It is a curious thing that Mr. Ricketts
and Mr. Shannon, companions aiways in the arts,
should have won their Giibert prizes (for Lambeth)
together, in the competition of 1885.

In this year's competition the award of honour
given to the club that shows the best collection of


GILBERT-GARRET COMFETITION, 1908 : IST FRIZE FOR
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sketches was allotted to the Royal CoIIege of Art
by the judges, Mr. Frank Brangwyn, A.R.A., Mr.
Arnesby Brown, A.R.A., and Mr. Alfred Drury,
A.R.A. Among the CoIIege of Art sketches,
landscapes predominated, and one of them gained
the hrst landscape prize. This was taken by Mr.
H. A. Budd with a vigorous study in oil of a
summer sea breaking over half-submerged rocks,
the only objection to which was that it did not
exactly ibustrate the subject set for landscape—
" Desolation." Far better from this point of view
was the oil sketch of night falting over lonely hitly
country, with which Mr. A. Kidd won for the
CoIIege one of the three third landscape prizes.
Mr. G. H. Day gained the second prize for hgure
composition ("A Subject from Kipling") with a
bold design illustrating one of the " Just-So Stories,"
and Mr. C. AHan Wallis the second animal prize
(" At the Water's Edge ") with a creditable painting
of the unloading of barges by horses and carts.
Several other works in the College of Art collection
were highly commended by the judges.

The Royal Academy Club was awarded one
of the three prizes for sculpture, for a model by
Mr. Alfred Buxton, but the works in line and
colour from Burlington House were few in number,
and only one was of real excellence. This was
Miss M. E. Green's drawing in red and black chaik,
on grey paper, of men watering horses : a capital
sketch, full of light and atmosphere, that was
awarded the first prize in the animal section.
Miss Green, before she went to the Academy, was
the pupil of Mr. Calderon at the School of Animal
Painting, where she won a scholarship in 1903.
One of the second prizes in the animal section
was taken by a student of the Calderon School,
Miss K. A. Smith, with a dashing little painting in
oil, of a dog drinking at a rocky pool. Of the


GtLBERT-GARRET COMPETLrtON, 1908 : 2ND FRIZE FOR
SCULPTURE BY GEO. HARLAND (ST. MARTIN's)

other good studies of animals sent by the Calderon
School the best was certainly the painting of farm
horses drinking at a pond on a grey morning,
by Miss M. Congdon White, to which the third
prize was given.
To the Regent Street Polytechnic fell the first
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