International studio (46.1912)

An Art School with a Standard


FIFTEENTH-CENTURY CARAVEL
BY MISS M. B. COGGESHALL
BEAUX-ARTS PROJECT

FIFTEENTH-CENTURY CARAVEL
BY MISS J. L. M’COY
BEAUX-ARTS PROJECT


ART SCHOOL WITH A STAND-
ARD
It is particularly interesting to find
an institution which has not only set
for its students a worthy and high standard of
achievement but which has succeeded consistent-
ly in working up to this standard. In the New
York School of Applied Design for Women there
have been added certain elements designed to
meet the exacting needs of today—a liberal
widening of the field in general by the inclusion of
all arts which may profitably be practiced by
women, and a careful study of the requirements
which will confront the students upon their


student endeavor, and in place of the teaching of
a few purely ornamental accomplishments a prac-
tical and well-directed series of courses were ar-
ranged which should constitute definite prepara-
tion for efficient coping with professional work in
late years. Stevenson’s wail that “Life is hard
enough for poor mortals, without having it in-
definitely embittered for them by bad art,” must
surely have found its way into the policies of this
school, which has preferred to send out good pro-
fessional designers in many fields, both artistic
and commercial, rather than poor artists in a field
already replete with such.
A distinctly interesting departure was made in
architectural work, after comprehensive inquiries

graduation
from the
school.
It was felt
that the public
has had enough
(if not too
much) of the
very indiffer-
ently executed
hand-painted
china and im-
mature dauby
paintings
which were, for
a time, associ-
ated with art-

INTERIOR DECORATION DESIGNED BY P. G. ROBINSON


from leading
architects as to
the exact es-
sentials requir-
ed of a young
draughtsman
before his ac-
ceptance in an
office. It was
found upon
careful exami-
nation of these
requir e m e n t s
that they con-
tained nothing
which a young
woman might

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