Studio: international art (24.1902)

Studio-Talk

TORONTO.—The School Art movement
inaugurated at Toronto about three
years since has continued to grow apace.
Nineteen different organisations have
been formed in as many school districts in the
city, and a lively interest is perceptible in these
committees, resulting so far in the gathering of
funds by various methods, such as art loan ex-
hibitions, lectures, concerts, &c, for the purchasing
of standard reproductions of works of art and the
redecorating of the interior of the schools.

The results of these efforts, especially at this
primary stage, in the dissemination of art
knowledge, must bear fruit in the near future,
and will produce, if persisted in judiciously, a
much higher average of intelligence throughout
the city in art matters, and that by a quick and

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enduring medium, that is to say through the
public schools.

This important movement will be dealt with at
greater length in a future number of The Studio.

J- G.

MELBOURNE.—The Victorian Artists'
Society has recently made an im-
portant alteration in its constitution.
Hitherto any layman who paid an
annual guinea became thereby a full member of
the society. The practice was a financial help, but
it robbed membership of any artistic significance.
To remedy this defect, the council passed a resolu-
tion on the 30th of May, that the Society "shall
in future consist of academicians, associates, and
subscribing members," and at the same meeting
the following six " academicians " were forthwith