DOI issue:
Nr. 182 (May 1908)
DOI article:Art school notes
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20777#0359
Art School Notes
the competitors for the prizes offered by the Head
Master, Mr. T. McKeggie, and awarded by Mr.
Cecil J. Hobson, R.I. The Lambeth Ait Club
was founded for the purpose of encouraging
students, by exhibitions and other means, to carry
out original and unassisted work, and all pupils,
past and present, of the Lambeth Art School are
eligible for membership. Seven prizes for original
work were offered at the spring exhibition. It is
to the credit of the women students that six of the
prizes fell to their share, although the six did not
include the special prize for the best work in the
room, which was carried off by Mr. James H.
Swan, for a capital little grey-toned landscape in
oil. The prize for a portrait treated pictorially,
that is to say not as a mere school study, was
deservedly given to Miss Lucy Millett, whose low-
toned painting of a girl, executed by artificial light,
suggested the inspiration of Rossetti. Miss Sybil
Tawse, who has an excellent idea of design, and no
small skill in drawing, won the prize for figure
composition, The Bride, and another for design in
black-and-white with a graceful sketch in line of a
fairy figure amid surroundings of butterflies andfloral
forms. Another good design, obviously influenced
by the art of Japan, was that by Mr. Leonard
Brightwell, of fish swimming through slender,
curving water-weeds. Miss Dora Whittingham’s
study of the interior of a barn was too black in
tone, but it was nevertheless one of the best pieces
of painting in the exhibition; and worthy, too, of
special praise was the pastel by Miss May Furniss,
of a girl reflected in a mirror. The first prize in
landscape was taken by Miss Evelyn Herbert, for
a picture of a stretch of ploughed land bordered
by leafless trees, under a March sky; and other
creditable landscapes were a study in oil, by Miss
Isabel Barnes, the garden picture by Miss Mary
Dew, and the works shown by Miss Mary Simpson
and Miss Barber. The sketches and studies in
the exhibition by Miss E. K. Burgess, Miss J.
Everidge, Miss Mary Seaton, Miss Farquhar, Miss
Katie Blackmore, Miss Morgan, and Miss Dorette
Roche also deserve mention.
Last month a capital exhibition of pictures drew
many visitors to the South Western Polytechnic,
Chelsea. The exhibition, arranged by the head of
the art school, Mr. E. Borough Johnson, R.I., con-
tained nearly forty pictures and drawings, including
work by Mr. George Clausen, R. A., the late William
Estall, Mr. A. S. Hartrick and Mr. James Pryde,
among others. Mr. Borough Johnson was himself
represented in the exhibition by a Dutch pastoral,
34°
The Home Journey, in which realism and decorative
arrangement were happily combined, and there were
contributions also from the assistant master, Mr.
Arthur Stewart, R.B.A., and the modelling master,
Mr. C. L. Hartwell. A water - colour landscape
by Mr. Kunzo Minami, a young Japanese artist
who admires the European schools of painters and
is now studying in the life classes under Mr.
Borough Johnson, was entirely European in treat-
ment and showed no traces of Japanese influence.
A high standard is maintained in the life classes at
the South Western Polytechnic, which are attended
for practice by some of the younger Chelsea artists,
and an interesting special feature is the lithographic
class in which the students draw directly from the
life on to the stone. The architectural school has
one of the finest collections in London of drawings
and photographs suitable for-its special purposes.
At the Borough Polytechnic Institute the arts
and crafts department has lately been in a state
of transition, and therefore the results of its work
were not seen to the best advantage in the ex-
hibition held last month. Mr. R. B. Poynder,
A.R.C.A., has now been placed in charge of the
department, and the application of art to industries
is likely to be developed in several new directions
at the Institute. There are many opportunities
for doing this in a large technical school, and
some of them have already been grasped, as for
example in the bookbinding classes, and in the
training class for embroiderers, which is conducted
by Miss I. M. Dight. In the embroidery class,
from which some of the great West End dress-
makers draw their assistants, every pattern is first
designed and drawn by the particular girl who
afterwards executes it with the needle. At the
Borough Polytechnic art asserts itself even in the
bakery classes, where the confectioners are in-
structed in modelling and geometrical drawing,
and taught something of harmony and the right
combination of colours. W. T. W.
BIRMINGHAM.—At the Municipal School
of Art in Margaret Street, during the
past session, a series of lectures was
given on the artistic crafts, the subjects
dealt with embracing stained glass, furniture and
domestic architecture, lettering, needlework and
embroidery, the methods employed in painting
and jewellery, each subject being taken by an
expert in the particular craft. The lectures were
all free, and so encouraging have been the results
as shown by the attendance that the Headmaster,
the competitors for the prizes offered by the Head
Master, Mr. T. McKeggie, and awarded by Mr.
Cecil J. Hobson, R.I. The Lambeth Ait Club
was founded for the purpose of encouraging
students, by exhibitions and other means, to carry
out original and unassisted work, and all pupils,
past and present, of the Lambeth Art School are
eligible for membership. Seven prizes for original
work were offered at the spring exhibition. It is
to the credit of the women students that six of the
prizes fell to their share, although the six did not
include the special prize for the best work in the
room, which was carried off by Mr. James H.
Swan, for a capital little grey-toned landscape in
oil. The prize for a portrait treated pictorially,
that is to say not as a mere school study, was
deservedly given to Miss Lucy Millett, whose low-
toned painting of a girl, executed by artificial light,
suggested the inspiration of Rossetti. Miss Sybil
Tawse, who has an excellent idea of design, and no
small skill in drawing, won the prize for figure
composition, The Bride, and another for design in
black-and-white with a graceful sketch in line of a
fairy figure amid surroundings of butterflies andfloral
forms. Another good design, obviously influenced
by the art of Japan, was that by Mr. Leonard
Brightwell, of fish swimming through slender,
curving water-weeds. Miss Dora Whittingham’s
study of the interior of a barn was too black in
tone, but it was nevertheless one of the best pieces
of painting in the exhibition; and worthy, too, of
special praise was the pastel by Miss May Furniss,
of a girl reflected in a mirror. The first prize in
landscape was taken by Miss Evelyn Herbert, for
a picture of a stretch of ploughed land bordered
by leafless trees, under a March sky; and other
creditable landscapes were a study in oil, by Miss
Isabel Barnes, the garden picture by Miss Mary
Dew, and the works shown by Miss Mary Simpson
and Miss Barber. The sketches and studies in
the exhibition by Miss E. K. Burgess, Miss J.
Everidge, Miss Mary Seaton, Miss Farquhar, Miss
Katie Blackmore, Miss Morgan, and Miss Dorette
Roche also deserve mention.
Last month a capital exhibition of pictures drew
many visitors to the South Western Polytechnic,
Chelsea. The exhibition, arranged by the head of
the art school, Mr. E. Borough Johnson, R.I., con-
tained nearly forty pictures and drawings, including
work by Mr. George Clausen, R. A., the late William
Estall, Mr. A. S. Hartrick and Mr. James Pryde,
among others. Mr. Borough Johnson was himself
represented in the exhibition by a Dutch pastoral,
34°
The Home Journey, in which realism and decorative
arrangement were happily combined, and there were
contributions also from the assistant master, Mr.
Arthur Stewart, R.B.A., and the modelling master,
Mr. C. L. Hartwell. A water - colour landscape
by Mr. Kunzo Minami, a young Japanese artist
who admires the European schools of painters and
is now studying in the life classes under Mr.
Borough Johnson, was entirely European in treat-
ment and showed no traces of Japanese influence.
A high standard is maintained in the life classes at
the South Western Polytechnic, which are attended
for practice by some of the younger Chelsea artists,
and an interesting special feature is the lithographic
class in which the students draw directly from the
life on to the stone. The architectural school has
one of the finest collections in London of drawings
and photographs suitable for-its special purposes.
At the Borough Polytechnic Institute the arts
and crafts department has lately been in a state
of transition, and therefore the results of its work
were not seen to the best advantage in the ex-
hibition held last month. Mr. R. B. Poynder,
A.R.C.A., has now been placed in charge of the
department, and the application of art to industries
is likely to be developed in several new directions
at the Institute. There are many opportunities
for doing this in a large technical school, and
some of them have already been grasped, as for
example in the bookbinding classes, and in the
training class for embroiderers, which is conducted
by Miss I. M. Dight. In the embroidery class,
from which some of the great West End dress-
makers draw their assistants, every pattern is first
designed and drawn by the particular girl who
afterwards executes it with the needle. At the
Borough Polytechnic art asserts itself even in the
bakery classes, where the confectioners are in-
structed in modelling and geometrical drawing,
and taught something of harmony and the right
combination of colours. W. T. W.
BIRMINGHAM.—At the Municipal School
of Art in Margaret Street, during the
past session, a series of lectures was
given on the artistic crafts, the subjects
dealt with embracing stained glass, furniture and
domestic architecture, lettering, needlework and
embroidery, the methods employed in painting
and jewellery, each subject being taken by an
expert in the particular craft. The lectures were
all free, and so encouraging have been the results
as shown by the attendance that the Headmaster,