International studio (40.1910)

Art School Notes

(England) of ^60, tenable
for one year, for a design
for A Loggia in a Public
Garden with a Concert
Room behind opening from it.
Eighteen silver medals and
nearly four hundred pounds
in money will be distri-
buted among the successful
students on the 10th of
December. All the com-
peting works must be sent
in by the 5th of November.

Westminster School of Art
claims some of the credit for
the training of Mr. Alfred
Buxton, the Gold Medallist
in Sculpture at the Royal
Academy Schools, whose
admirable design in relief,
The Expulsion of Adam and
Eve from Paradise, was

'the challenge" by a. phimister proctor recently illustrated in The

(Canadian Art Club Exhibition) _ _ _

ART SCHOOL NOTES.

L

Studio. Mr. Buxton joined
the Westminster School when a boy of fourteen,
and worked there for several years under Mr.
Bramwell before proceeding to the City Guilds
0 N DON.—Although the gold medals and Technical College (Firfsbury), whence he passed
biennial scholarships are not given this ;nt0 the Academy schools,
year at the Royal Academy schools, the

prize list that has just been issued is of Mr. Percy v. Bradshaw, of the Press Art School,
considerable interest. The principal prize open to has secured the co-operation of the art editors of
figure painters in an off-year like the present is, of several important London journals, who have
course, that of £\o for the best design in tempera written for him advisory articles that should be of
or water colour for the decoration of a portion of great value to the many pupils who are gaining
a public building. The subject chosen, Bathers, instruction from Mr. Bradshaw's well-known corre-
is capable of an infinite variety of treatment spondence courses for the study of black-and-
ranging from Michael Angelo's famous Cartoon of white. In an interesting illustrated pamphlet on
Pisa to the well-known English pastoral of Fred the aims of his school (which can be obtained by
Walker. The subject for the Creswick Prize of writing to 128, Drakefell Road, New Cross) Mr.
£3o, Wild Flower Growth by a River Bank, Bradshaw quotes Phil May on the value of special
offers a fine chance to the painter of foregrounds ; instruction. " There are so many things," said
and for the cartoon prize few better motives can be Phil May, "that don't come by intuition, but
imagined than A Veiled Seated Figure suggestive of have to be found out. You can find them out in
Silence. The sculptors' prizes include one of ,£30 two ways, by trying and failing, and then trying
for the best model of a design in the round to be again—or by being told." The famous draughts-
executed in the Academy during six days of man recommended the "being told" method,
November ; a prize for a design in relief of A Wall and the art editors who are co-operating with Mr!
Drinking Fountain containing figure and orna- Bradshaw can certainly tell the student many
ment; and another for a model of a medal or useful things about the kind of drawings and
coin designed to commemorate the Federation of designs that are suitable for various journals, and
South Africa. The principal prize offered in the how and when to submit them. In these articles
Architectural School is a travelling studentship they also give invaluable advice concerning

247