DOI issue:
No. 84 (March, 1900)
DOI article:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19784#0147
Studio- Talk
battalions of youthful painters to study the peace-
ful arts. To show that this is not an unlikely state of
affairs to predict for the future one has only to study
the work which has been done in the Melbourne
National Gallery School during the past year. H.
Ramsay's painting from the nude, and the drawing
from the antique (head) by Aron, are two pieces of
work one would scarcely see surpassed in any
school. Both the directors, Mr. Bernard Hall and
Mr. Fred MacCubbin, who gives instruction in the
drawing school, are to be congratulated upon the
work which has been done this last year.
Australian students do not take kindly to
" grinding." The free, open-air life which they
are bred - in makes them restive under rule and
restraint, and evidence of this inability to buckle
to showed itself very decidedly in the work
BELLOWS IN BRASS REPOUSSE BY MAY L. G. COOKSEY
(See Liverpool Studio- 7'a/i)
134
BRLIOWS IN OAK AND STEEL, WITH TAPESTRY PANEL
BY ELIZABETH MORRIS
(See Liverpool Studio-Talk)
exhibited at one time; but this year there seems a
universal settling down, and a decided grit is
manifest in place of the chic and slight work
which was the rule in earlier days. It is to be
hoped that as the National Gallery Schools
develop, a place may also be found for the highly
useful School of Arts and Crafts.
A conversazione, which was attended by a
brilliant gathering, was held in the National
Gallery on the evening of December 18, at which
His Excellency the Governor, Lord Brassey, pre-
sided, in order to award the prizes to the success-
ful students for the year.
The scholarship has been awarded altogether five
times, Mr. John Longstaff being the first student
who won it, and Mr. Meldrum the fifth. So far
battalions of youthful painters to study the peace-
ful arts. To show that this is not an unlikely state of
affairs to predict for the future one has only to study
the work which has been done in the Melbourne
National Gallery School during the past year. H.
Ramsay's painting from the nude, and the drawing
from the antique (head) by Aron, are two pieces of
work one would scarcely see surpassed in any
school. Both the directors, Mr. Bernard Hall and
Mr. Fred MacCubbin, who gives instruction in the
drawing school, are to be congratulated upon the
work which has been done this last year.
Australian students do not take kindly to
" grinding." The free, open-air life which they
are bred - in makes them restive under rule and
restraint, and evidence of this inability to buckle
to showed itself very decidedly in the work
BELLOWS IN BRASS REPOUSSE BY MAY L. G. COOKSEY
(See Liverpool Studio- 7'a/i)
134
BRLIOWS IN OAK AND STEEL, WITH TAPESTRY PANEL
BY ELIZABETH MORRIS
(See Liverpool Studio-Talk)
exhibited at one time; but this year there seems a
universal settling down, and a decided grit is
manifest in place of the chic and slight work
which was the rule in earlier days. It is to be
hoped that as the National Gallery Schools
develop, a place may also be found for the highly
useful School of Arts and Crafts.
A conversazione, which was attended by a
brilliant gathering, was held in the National
Gallery on the evening of December 18, at which
His Excellency the Governor, Lord Brassey, pre-
sided, in order to award the prizes to the success-
ful students for the year.
The scholarship has been awarded altogether five
times, Mr. John Longstaff being the first student
who won it, and Mr. Meldrum the fifth. So far