International studio (36.1908/1909(1909))

Dodshon and Mr. W. L. Tebby, past-president and
vice-president respectiveiy of the Gilbert-Garret
Club, referred to the favourable opinion on the com-
petition works expressed by the judges, at whose
wish extra prizes had been added to the original list.
The exhibition of the Giibert-Garret competition
works was preceded in the same building at South
Kensington by one composed of the vacation
studies of the pupiis of the Royal CoHege of Art.
This exhibition contained nearly four hundred
works of various kinds executed by the com-
petitors for the thirty-three vacation prizes offered
principaily by the teaching staff of the Royai
Coliege of Art. Some particuiars of these prizes
were given in THE STUDio of August, and it wiii be
unnecessary therefore to refer again to the names
of the donors. Taking the work as a whoie, the
standard was high, especiaiiy in iandscape and in
modeliing. But it was weakest where most strength
was to be expected, in figure composition. The
chief prize for figure composition was gained by
Mr. R. W. Stewart for a study in oii of a garden
party, the best quality of which was its feeiing of
diffused iight. Mr. Stewart aiso won the first prize
for the best set of sketches in coiour, and the first
prize for the best oil iandscape. Another winner of
three prizes was Mr. Peter Brown, who carried off
the awards for the best set of figures in action, for
the best study of architecture in combination with
iandscape (the Bayswater end of the Serpentine),
and for the best landscape suggested by a passage
from Tennyson or Miiton. The scuiptor students
who won Hrst prizes were Miss j. Lawson,
Mr. H. Parr, and Mr. Ledward. Miss Lawson's
first prize was suppiemented by a special additionai
prize given by the scuiptorjudge. Mr. J. R. G.
Exiey and Mr. A. Bentley won the prizes for
etching, Mr. J. Smiley that for design for any
decorative purpose (in this case for tapestry), and
Miss K. Pavey the prize for the best infant's frock
designed and embroidered by the worker. Other
students who won prizes or showed work of ex-
ceptionai merit were Mr. H. A. Budd, Mr. L.
Preston, Mr. P. H. Jowett, Mr. G. Atkinson,
Mr. J. Jennis, Mr. H. Boardman Wright, Mr.
Raymond Jones, Mr. W. O. Miiler, Mr. R. GiH,
Mr. H. G. Day, Mr. O. Senior, Mr. H. Moriey,
Mr. T. Maidment, Mr. W. O. Bridges, Mr. C. P.
Walgate, Mr. A. W. Beliis, Miss G. Atkinson,
Mr. W. Macmiiian, Mr. C. Wyse, and Mr. W.
Washington. The prizes were awarded by Mr.
George Henry, A.R. A., Mr. R. Anning Beii, R.W.S.,
Mr. H. Hughes Stanton, and Mr. David McGili.
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At Bedford Coiiege for Women, Mr. George
Thomson, the Director of the Art Schooi, gave a
series of addresses iast month on " The Conditions
of Permanence in the Coiours of Modern Pictures."
Mr. George Clausen, R.A., presided at the opening
lecture, and among those who listened to Mr.
Thomson's remarks on coiours and mediums was
Professor Church, F.R.S., of the Royal Academy,
who is possibly the irrst iiving authority on the
subject. Mr. Thomson, whose address was iiius-
trated by experiments, criticised severeiy the negiect
by modern painters of this side of the artist's educa-
tion, and deciared that in aii his experience he had
never met a student in an art school who had been
taught to varnish a picture. In a discussion that
foiiowed the iecture, Mr. Clausen defended iinseed
oii as a medium, and said that he had used nothing
else in the painting of his picture fPiW W
Ca/?, in the Tate Gaiiery. Mr. Clausen thinks
that the questions of technicai methods and mate-
riais are perhaps the most important that artists
can discuss. He is of opinion that it would be a
good tbing for the art student to give up drawing
and painting for one or two days a week and to
devote the time instead to the serious study of
these technical matters.

In November the members of the Sir John Cass
Arts and Crafts Society held an interesting little
exhibition at Walker's GaHery in New Bond Street.
Mr. Harold Stabler, who is at the head of the arts
and crafts classes at the Sir John Cass Institute,
was represented, among other things, by some
ecclesiastical work in brass, severe in design and
digniHed in treatment, and by an elegant sporting
cup in silver, enamel, and ivory, executed in con-
junction with Miss May Hart Partridge. Cases of
jewellery were contributed by Miss Violet Ramsay,
Miss Gabrielle Mileham, Miss Ethel P. Agnew,
C. M. Kirkman, Miss Dora Brooke-CIarke, I.
Hope, S. M. Martineau, Mrs. Keane, J. Lindsay-
Black, B. L. Goff, and Miss Rosabella Drummond.
Mr. F. Signorelli showed an attractive silver
mirror and several pieces of jewellery, Mr. R. F.
Wells and Mrs. Stabler small bronzes, and Mr.
George E. von Kruger a number of clever designs
and drawings in line and colour. W. T. W.
T—"IDINBURGH—In the Royal Scottish
) ^ Academy Galleries, Edinburgh, there
^ was recently held an exhibition of work
^ ^ by the students of the applied art sec-
tion of the school of design, now merged in the
CoIIege of Art. The students went through a