Studio: international art (46.1909)

A rt School Notes

SKETCH OF CHARLES WOODWARD BY VIOLET OAKLEY

awarded to Maxfield Parrish for his work, Landing
of the Brazen Boat?nan. E. C.

ART SCHOOL NOTES.

LONDON.—An attractive exhibition was
held last month at the South London
Art Gallery of work executed by students
of the Camberwell School of Arts and
Crafts. The exhibition, which was arranged prin-
cipally in the Ruskin room of the Art Gallery
(which adjoins the Camberwell School), illustrated
by the variety of its contents the broad field of
industries covered by the school’s curriculum.
Nothing was more interesting than the specimens of
pottery arranged in the centre of the Ruskin room,
especially those contributed jointly by Mr. A. and
Mr. H. Hopkins. These were described as “the first
outcome of experiments in the chemistry of glazes
and their use in art in their application to good
thrown earthenware shapes,” and the best of them
were charming in their grace of form and delicacy
of colour. If the two young potters can preserve
in the further developments of their craft the
simplicity of these early efforts there should be a
considerable demand for their work. Needlework
figured largely in the exhibition, and there was a

good collection of bookbindings, notably by
Mr. H. G. Adams, Mr. R. Pearce, Mr. H. H.
Cushion, and Mr. R. Venner. Printing, plaster-
ing, wood-carving, gilding, jewellery, lettering,
cabinet-making, costume drawing and design,
stained glass and lithography are but a few of
the subjects taught in the school over which
Mr. W. B. Dalton presides, and all of these were
well represented. Good book illustration and
other black-and-white work were shown by Mr.
A. S. Hayes and Mr. J. Jaggs, and by a young
Spanish student, Mr. R. Montes. One of the
best of the water-colours was a study of an old
woman’s head by Mr. J. Turner. Painting the
figure in oils is a new development at Camber-
well, but there was promise in some of the
sincere and careful studies from life shown in the
exhibition of carpenters at work at the bench.
School of Art Scholarships have been awarded
at Camberwell by the London County Council
to Alfred S. Hayes, Mabel D. Johnson, Made-
leine Kings-Lynne, William G. Whitaker, Con-
stance A. Cocksedge, Isabel E. Drake, Emily
E. Mullins, Daisy S. Newton, Jessie M. Nichol
son, Margaret D. Nicholson, and Ruth Thurley
with extensions for two years to Millicent
Coleman and Lilian C. Fox. In the last National
Competition silver medals were gained by Ger-
trude Coleman and Guy Miller, and bronze medals
by Evelyn Bousfield, Margaret L. Greig, James
H. Hogan, Arthur Langford, Maude Rogers, Hilda
Russell and Daisy V. Wilks.

The prizes given by the Society of Arts to the
students of the Artistic Crafts Department of the
Northampton Polytechnic Institute, Camberwell,
were awarded last month to Mr. John Allan and
Mr. W. W. Meedy. The special prizes offered on
the same occasion to the Artistic Crafts students
by the Worshipful Company of Skinners were taken
by Mr. Alfred J. Barnes and Mr. Cyril Bailey.

A curious indication of the remarkable develop-
ment in England of the practice of studying from
the living model was seen last month in the reading
before the Architectural Association Debating
Society of a paper by Mr. E. Constable Alston on
“ Drawing from the Life, its Value to Architects.”
A generation or two ago no artist would have
thought of suggesting that it could be necessary
or advantageous for architects at large to draw
from the life, and architects who desired to do so
would have found it difficult to discover a school in
which to work. To-day, when life classes exist

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