Studio: international art (46.1909)

Art School Notes

“the island

BY EDWARD W. REDFIELD

pretation of still life—works which went far to show
that painters in America—the land of haste—are
learning to labour patiently and are technically
mastering their art. L. M.

ART SCHOOL NOTES.

LONDON.—The illustrations that accom-
pany these notes include reproductions
of three of the figure designs shown at
Burlington House in the recent exhibi-
tion of works by students of the Royal Academy.
The first illustration is a reproduction of the
excellent cartoon of A Draped Female Figure on
a Wind-sivept Sea-shore, with which Miss Marianne
H. W. Robilliard gained the silver medal and the
prize of ^25. Miss Amy Joanna Fry’s design
gained the prize of £40 offered for the best scheme
for a picture symbolical of “ Husbandry,” and
suitable for the decoration of a portion of a public
building. Unfortunately, in a black-and-white
reproduction complete justice cannot be done to
the good qualities of Miss Fry’s design, the
strongest point of which is its colour. Rich and
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harmonious colour is also a prominent feature in
Miss Dorothy Hawksley’s design for “ Husbandry,”
which was one of the best of those submitted in
the recent competition. Miss Hawksley, it will be
remembered, won the second of the two silver
medals offered to the Academy students for the
best paintings from the nude.

It is interesting to notice in the list of visitors to
the Royal Academy Schools for the present year
the name of Mr. Charles Sims, A.R.A., who in
July will, for the first time, give the students the
benefit of his advice in the School of Painting.
The visitors for March are, in the School of
Painting, Mr. J. H. F. Bacon, A.R.A.; the School
of Drawing, Mr. Henry Woods, R.A. ; the School
of Sculpture, Mr. William Goscombe John, A.R.A.;
and the School of Architecture, Mr. R. T. Blom-
field, A.R.A., and Mr. T. G. Jackson, R.A.

At the Slade School the prizes, with one excep-
tion, are awarded at the end of the summer term.
The exception is the Slade Prize of ^25 for figure
composition, which is awarded at Christmas. In