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Nr. 193 (April 1909)
DOI Artikel:Art school notes
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Art School Notes
for the houses of noblemen have frequently been
subjects in the gold medal competitions of the
past; but “ Dives and Lazarus ” figures in the list
for the first time. It is a capital subject, and
equally good is the one chosen for the competition
for the prize of ,£40 for a design for the decora-
tion of a portion of a public building, “A Hunting
Scene, Mediaeval or Classical.” This is to be
designed to fill a given space in the refreshment
room at the Royal Academy, and if the work of
the successful student is considered sufficiently
meritorious, he may be invited to execute it at
the cost of the Academy. The subject for the
Turner Gold Medal and Scholarship of ^50 is
“ Fishing Boats Making for Safety in a Gale,” and
for the Creswick Prize of ^30, “The Bole of an
Oak Tree with a Wooded Landscape Background.”
The cartoon prize of ^25 and a silver medal
is offered this year for a drawing in chalk or
charcoal, life size, of “ A Female Allegorical
Figure of Winter.” Many other prizes for drawing,
painting, modelling, and design are included in the
list, and the sum-total of the money awards,
including scholarships, exceeds ,£1,000. This,
however, is less than the sum-total of the prize
list in a “ great ” year previous to the reorganiza-
tion of the schools in 1904.
Mr. Seymour Lucas, R.A., will be the visitor
during May in the School of Drawing at the Royal
Academy. Mr. Henry Woods, R.A., will visit the
School of Painting, Mr. Hamo Thornycroft, R.A.,
the School of Sculpture, and Mr. T. G. Jackson,
R.A., the School of Architecture.
London, South, West, and North, has been the
birthplace of some of our greatest painters,
sculptors, and designers, and Hogarth first saw the
light in the City itself; but for some reason,
difficult of explanation, the Eastern division of the
Metropolis is almost destitute of artistic tradition.
It is believed that Hoppner was born in White-
chapel, and certainly William Morris was a native
of Walthamstow, and these are possibly the only
artists of high rank that the East has produced.
Some explanation of this paucity may perhaps be
found in the artistic neglect
of the district until modern
times. Whitechapel was
quick enough to appreciate
good pictures when they
first made their appearance
at the excellent Art Gal-
lery, and the establishment
of art schools in East
London has brought forth
students as intelligent and
sympathetic as any of their
Western brethren. Proofs
of this were to be seen last
month in the work shown
by the students of the art
school, directed by Mr.
Arthur Legge, R.B.A., at
the West Ham Technical
Institute, on the evening
of the annual conversa-
zione. The students’ taste
and skill were shown too
in the tableaux vivants, in
which pictures by Albert
Moore, Mr. Blair Leighton,
Mr. Edgar Bundy, and Mr.
J. H. F. Bacon, A.R.A.,
were admirably reproduced
with scenery painted by
Mr. P. Willats and Mr. A.
“FRIENDLY CRITICS” by MISS CONSTANCE L. JENKINS
(Melbourne National Gallery School: see gage 253)
25I
for the houses of noblemen have frequently been
subjects in the gold medal competitions of the
past; but “ Dives and Lazarus ” figures in the list
for the first time. It is a capital subject, and
equally good is the one chosen for the competition
for the prize of ,£40 for a design for the decora-
tion of a portion of a public building, “A Hunting
Scene, Mediaeval or Classical.” This is to be
designed to fill a given space in the refreshment
room at the Royal Academy, and if the work of
the successful student is considered sufficiently
meritorious, he may be invited to execute it at
the cost of the Academy. The subject for the
Turner Gold Medal and Scholarship of ^50 is
“ Fishing Boats Making for Safety in a Gale,” and
for the Creswick Prize of ^30, “The Bole of an
Oak Tree with a Wooded Landscape Background.”
The cartoon prize of ^25 and a silver medal
is offered this year for a drawing in chalk or
charcoal, life size, of “ A Female Allegorical
Figure of Winter.” Many other prizes for drawing,
painting, modelling, and design are included in the
list, and the sum-total of the money awards,
including scholarships, exceeds ,£1,000. This,
however, is less than the sum-total of the prize
list in a “ great ” year previous to the reorganiza-
tion of the schools in 1904.
Mr. Seymour Lucas, R.A., will be the visitor
during May in the School of Drawing at the Royal
Academy. Mr. Henry Woods, R.A., will visit the
School of Painting, Mr. Hamo Thornycroft, R.A.,
the School of Sculpture, and Mr. T. G. Jackson,
R.A., the School of Architecture.
London, South, West, and North, has been the
birthplace of some of our greatest painters,
sculptors, and designers, and Hogarth first saw the
light in the City itself; but for some reason,
difficult of explanation, the Eastern division of the
Metropolis is almost destitute of artistic tradition.
It is believed that Hoppner was born in White-
chapel, and certainly William Morris was a native
of Walthamstow, and these are possibly the only
artists of high rank that the East has produced.
Some explanation of this paucity may perhaps be
found in the artistic neglect
of the district until modern
times. Whitechapel was
quick enough to appreciate
good pictures when they
first made their appearance
at the excellent Art Gal-
lery, and the establishment
of art schools in East
London has brought forth
students as intelligent and
sympathetic as any of their
Western brethren. Proofs
of this were to be seen last
month in the work shown
by the students of the art
school, directed by Mr.
Arthur Legge, R.B.A., at
the West Ham Technical
Institute, on the evening
of the annual conversa-
zione. The students’ taste
and skill were shown too
in the tableaux vivants, in
which pictures by Albert
Moore, Mr. Blair Leighton,
Mr. Edgar Bundy, and Mr.
J. H. F. Bacon, A.R.A.,
were admirably reproduced
with scenery painted by
Mr. P. Willats and Mr. A.
“FRIENDLY CRITICS” by MISS CONSTANCE L. JENKINS
(Melbourne National Gallery School: see gage 253)
25I