Studio: international art (45.1909)

Art School Notes

“the beer cellar” (etching)

(London School of Art)

BY EDITH A. HOPE

ceased in July, and that
the premises in Queen
Square have been taken
over by the London County
Council for a technical
trade school. In a sense
the school still lives, as its
classes have been trans-
ferred to the new Central
School of Arts and Crafts
in Southampton Row, but
the threads of its traditions
have been severed by the
loss of the stately old
eighteenth-century houses
in Bloomsbury, in which
for nearly half a century
the artistic education of
London girls was carried
on under Miss Gann and
Miss Wilson, and in more
recent years under Miss
Rose Welby. The list of
women-artists whose train-
ing was commenced in
Queen Square is a very
long one, and it includes
the names of Mrs. Ailing-
ham, R.W.S., Miss Hen-
rietta Rae, and Miss Mary
L. Gow, R. I.

attached to the school, that showed a
sincere endeavour to grapple with the
difficulties of open air light and colour.
Miss Birks was second, with a clever
painting of a man reading a paper ; Miss
Garlant third and Miss Fearon fourth.
In the class for portrait painting, life-
size heads in oils, Miss Bredall was first
and Miss Brend, Miss Pennethorne and
Miss Sale, second, third and fourth.
The London School of Art has not been
very long established, but its good
methods of teaching and the high repu-
tation of its professors have already
earned it distinction both here and
abroad. Among its two hundred pupils
various European countries are repre-
sented, and it has also succeeded in
attracting American students.

Past students of the Royal Female
School of Art will be sorry to hear that
lts existence as a separate institution

EMBROIDERED SILK CUSHION DESIGNED AND EXECUTED BY
EMMA GUTENSOHN
( Städtische Gewerbeschule, Stuttgart)

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