International studio (46.1912)

An Art School with a Standard


STAINED GLASS WINDOW
BY ADELE KLAER
IN DESIGN CLASS OF ALPHONSE MUCHA


DRAWN BY C. MORRIS IN THE COSTUME
SKETCH CLASS
not readily accomplish, and accomplish well, which
resulted in a series of definite architectural courses.
These prepared many women so thoroughly that
they are now competently working over the
draughting boards of several architectural offices,
while the school students take part enthusiastic-
ally and successfully in the periodical general com-
petition of the Society of Beaux Arts Architects of
America. Further, the marked ability shown by
some women in landscape architecture and in-
terior decorating has suggested strong emphasis
on these very special fields in which the studies
are carried out along strictly practical lines.
In the decorative design courses the students
very early learn certain things, notably that for
practical purposes a design is not simply a de-
sign but that it must be both studied and rendered
with a practical knowledge of how it is to be re-
produced, whether woven, printed or stencilled,
and whether in textile, on cloth or on paper. For
this reason a great many designs have been bought
by manufacturers from students still in the school
—a state of affairs which was never apparent in
school work at one time. The student, indeed,
having finished a course of theoretical design
must learn anew upon commencing real work the
art of design for practical reproduction—a very

different matter from theoretical studies for imag-
inary purposes.
These are a few of the ideas which are being
actually carried out—ideas which have as their
inspiration the highest abstract ideals and stand-
ards, but which find their every-day expression
in the most definite and practical methods of
work. And these methods were evolved from a


DESIGN FOR BAG AND MOUNTING
BY AGNES FERNBACH
IN THE DESIGN CLASS UNDER ALPHONSE MUCHA

CIV