Studio: international art (46.1909)

Art School Notes

and the Grosvenor students will be given special
opportunities of studying the figure in its relation
to landscape. On this point, the importance of
which is not sufficiently appreciated by many
landscape painters, Mr. Donne lays great stress.
Apart from the daily lesson Mr. Donne gives once
a week a general criticism of all the work done by
the class. A large house has been taken for the
students for July and August. It will be super-
intended by the secretary of the Grosvenor Studio,
and so far as the expenses of board are concerned
will be conducted on a co-operative basis.

Last year the students of the London School of
Art, Stratford Road, Kensington, painted at Bruges
for many weeks under the general direction of Mr.
Frank Brangwyn, A.R.A., but this summer, starting
on July 20th, they are going farther afield to the
little mountain town of Assisi, a few miles from
Perugia. Assisi, full of memories of St. Francis
and Giotto, offers rare possibilities to the painter.
Perched as it is on a hill with fine old buildings and
many Roman remains, the student has only to step
outside the hotel to find subjects about him on every
side. Though small, Assisi possesses a very large
studio, built for some forgotten purpose by the
municipality, and this studio Mr. C. P. Townsley,
the director of the London Art School, has
been fortunate enough to secure for the use ot
his students. A costume model will pose three
days a week either in the studio or in the open
air, and Mr. Brangwyn will give three criticisms
each week on the landscape studies, the studies
from the costume model, and the work of the
composition class. Six weeks will be spent
painting at Assisi, and at the end of that time,
early in September, the homeward journey will
be commenced. This journey, however, is part
of the scheme of instruction. It will occupy
rather more than a fortnight, and in its course
the cities and galleries of Siena, Florence,
Venice, Padua, Verona and Milan will be
visited and studied. The teaching staff of the
London School of Art has just been strengthened
by the addition to its ranks of Mr. George W.
Lambert.

At the St. John’s Wood Art Schools the open-
air classes commence this month at Pinner,
where, it may be recalled, Mrs. Allingham found
some of the most remarkable of the old cottages
that figure so frequently in her sympathetic little
pictures of rural England. The Pinner class,
which is for water-colour painters, is conducted

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by Mr. Leonard Walker, a cousin of the late Fred
Walker. Its course will extend over six weeks, and
early in July Mr. C. M. Q. Orchardson, R.I., will
begin his classes for oil and water-colour painting
in the open air at Rye in Sussex. Rye, which is
one of the most paintable places in England, is
familiar ground to some of the St. John’s Wood
School students, as Mr. Orchardson took the class
there in 1906. In the two intervening years the
classes were held at Frensham in Surrey, and some
good landscapes painted by the students in that
locality were shown in the exhibition held at the
school a few months ago. The Rye class will
probably have the benefit of the advice of Mr. F.
D. Walenn, in addition to that of Mr. Orchardson,
who will make his headquarters at the Mermaid
Inn.

The country class of the School of Animal
Painting, Baker Street, will commence on July
12th, but Mr. Calderon, at the time this note was
written, had not made up his mind which to choose
of the two or three eligible localities whose claims
he was considering. The class will, however, be

EMBROIDERED PANEL WITH BEADWORK

BY MISS DOUGLAS
(Glasgow School of Art)