Studio: international art (34.1905)

Ruby Levick

"asleep in the arms of the slow-swinging seas" by ruby levick

been designed. The group
was exhibited in the Royal
Academy in the following
year, where Miss Levick
has since exhibited nearly
every year. Other medals
and awards marked her pro-
gress as that of a brilliant
student, but it is just where
all such things leave off
that the real test comes.
Miss Levick has since en-
dowed her art with per-
sonal qualities that give
it a more than usually
interesting and a remark-
ably promising place
amongst the work of
our younger contemporary
sculptors.

Miss Levick could hardly
help being interesting

men. To have striven for some time
after such qualities laid for the real
qualities of her art an admirable founda-
tion ; unconsciously she drifted into
work charming in its limitations, but
not until she had proved her willingness
to face the difficult technique of her
profession without any evidence of the
pitfalls it holds for the uncourageous
and the untrained. Her career at South
Kensington bears witness to her patient
study there, and her refusal to be beaten
by the first difficulties that are always
laid between an artist having something
to express and the ignorance which so
effectually silences any effectual ex-
pression. For about eight years Miss
Levick studied under Mr. Lanteri at
Kensington, and she acknowledges a
great debt to him for all he taught her.
She won a free studentship about a year
after her admission to the schools. In
1897 the Princess of Wales Scholarship
was awarded her, and a group of Boys
Wrestling won her a gold medal in the
National Competition, before gaining
her the British Institution Scholarship
for Modelling in 1896, in competition
for which scholarship the group had "the sea urchin" by ruby levick