DOI issue:
Nr. 164 (October, 1910)
DOI article:The National Competition of Schools of Art, 1910, at South Kensington
DOI Page / Citation link: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19867#0402
The National Competition of Schools of Art, igio
design for decoration by dorothy m. payne (lambeth)
lOlTa^.. red-walled antique room at a
school of art, a subject which
she has treated with a breadth
and simplicity rarely seen in
the work of a student.
A capital group of designs
for book illustration and
decoration came from Dorothy
M. Payne, of Lambeth School
of Art. The small sketches
from memory by Leslie M.
Ward, of Bournemouth, were
more attractive than his larger
studies; and among some
striking end-papers by Wini-
fred Cook, of the Willesden
Polytechnic, the two repro-
duced on page 299 appeared
a wall-fountain), exhibited by Albert Edward
Barlow, of Levenshulme. In the section of
modelled design the examiners have given a gold
medal for a tankard to Sylvan George Boxsius,
of Islington (Camden) School of Art. There was
nothing distinctive in the shape of this tankard,
the charm of which lay in the beautiful little frieze
of classic figures in low relief encircling it. A
dainty design for a cigarette box was that by Hilda
M. Potts, of Newcastle-on-Tyne (Armstrong Col-
lege) School of Art, and equally commendable is
the design for a silver mirror back sent to the
exhibition by Mabel Blackwell, of Leicester.
The modelling from the life was very good this
year, and a gold medal has been given by the
judges (Mr. W. R; Colton, A.R.A., Mr. W. Gos-
combe John, R.A.,and Mr. Derwent Wood, A.R.A.)
to a singularly complete study of a man tugging at
a rope by Lottie Ayers, of Westminster (St. Martin's)
School. One of the most interesting of the models
from life was the work of a Dublin student, Albert
G. Power, a half-length study of a withered old man,
executed with uncompromising fidelity. The paint-
ings from the life were also better, taken collectively,
than those of the last year or two. The head of
an American Indian by James A. Grant, of Liver-
pool, was a very strong bold piece of handling; and
an excellent though unfinished study from the nude
was shown by William S. Eggison, of the Birmingham
(Margaret Street) School. The work of this last-
named student showred great promise both in paint-
ing and in drawing from the life. Of the still life
paintings the best by far was the study by Marjorie
C. Bates, of Nottingham, of the interior of a book decoration, by dorothy m. payne (lambeth)
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design for decoration by dorothy m. payne (lambeth)
lOlTa^.. red-walled antique room at a
school of art, a subject which
she has treated with a breadth
and simplicity rarely seen in
the work of a student.
A capital group of designs
for book illustration and
decoration came from Dorothy
M. Payne, of Lambeth School
of Art. The small sketches
from memory by Leslie M.
Ward, of Bournemouth, were
more attractive than his larger
studies; and among some
striking end-papers by Wini-
fred Cook, of the Willesden
Polytechnic, the two repro-
duced on page 299 appeared
a wall-fountain), exhibited by Albert Edward
Barlow, of Levenshulme. In the section of
modelled design the examiners have given a gold
medal for a tankard to Sylvan George Boxsius,
of Islington (Camden) School of Art. There was
nothing distinctive in the shape of this tankard,
the charm of which lay in the beautiful little frieze
of classic figures in low relief encircling it. A
dainty design for a cigarette box was that by Hilda
M. Potts, of Newcastle-on-Tyne (Armstrong Col-
lege) School of Art, and equally commendable is
the design for a silver mirror back sent to the
exhibition by Mabel Blackwell, of Leicester.
The modelling from the life was very good this
year, and a gold medal has been given by the
judges (Mr. W. R; Colton, A.R.A., Mr. W. Gos-
combe John, R.A.,and Mr. Derwent Wood, A.R.A.)
to a singularly complete study of a man tugging at
a rope by Lottie Ayers, of Westminster (St. Martin's)
School. One of the most interesting of the models
from life was the work of a Dublin student, Albert
G. Power, a half-length study of a withered old man,
executed with uncompromising fidelity. The paint-
ings from the life were also better, taken collectively,
than those of the last year or two. The head of
an American Indian by James A. Grant, of Liver-
pool, was a very strong bold piece of handling; and
an excellent though unfinished study from the nude
was shown by William S. Eggison, of the Birmingham
(Margaret Street) School. The work of this last-
named student showred great promise both in paint-
ing and in drawing from the life. Of the still life
paintings the best by far was the study by Marjorie
C. Bates, of Nottingham, of the interior of a book decoration, by dorothy m. payne (lambeth)
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