Studio: international art (47.1909)

Art School Notes

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by him for the Scorpion Press to
serve as the cover for a volume of
poems by the well-known poet,
Balmont, bearing the title “ Zhar-
Ptitza,” which is the name given to
the fabulous Flame-bird of the old
Russian fairy tales, here symbol-
ized by the artist under the form
of a female figure flying upwards
and wearing the national koko-
schnik or headgear with streamers
of ribbon and a semi-oriental dress.
The design in its combination of
ornament and colour is reminis-
cent of the eighteenth - century
style which this artist has an
affection for. P. E.

ART SCHOOL NOTES.

London.— Mr. f. w.

Pomeroy, A.R.A., who
acted as judge last month
in the competition of
the Lambeth Art Club, is one of
the many eminent artists who have
owed their early training to the
famous South London school that

BOOK COVER DESIGNED BY KONSTANTIN SOMOFF . . . .. . . ,

is now under the direction of Mr.
T. McKeggie, A.R.C.A. At the
meeting and exhibition of the Art Club, held at
the school, the visit of the sculptor A.R.A. was
made the occasion for showing an excellent collec-
tion of modelled work. It was retrospective, and
included Miss Whittingham’s design for a memorial
tablet, and Mr. G. E. Bradbury’s design for the
decoration of a concert hall, which gained a gold
and a silver medal respectively in recent National
Art Competitions. In the main, however, the
exhibition was composed of the works submitted
in competition for the local prizes offered to
members of the Art Club, all of whom are past or
present students of the Lambeth school. Some
good work was shown in the various classes into
which the competition was divided.

For figure composition, a subject to which par-
ticular attention has always been paid at Lambeth,
competitors were invited to illustrate “A Fairy
Tale.” They might choose their own story, but it
was a condition that the illustration should be
upon a large scale. The prize was taken by Miss
Annie Barber, with a clever sketch of The Lost
Child, in which the frightened little girl is seen on

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Otto Wagner, Rolo Moser, Paul Roller and O.
Schoental; and there was a memorial exhibition
of Olbrich’s work. A series of sketches, costumes
and other objects illustrated the growing co-
operation of artists in matters pertaining to the
theatre. Among the contributors of these were
Ivolo Moser, C. O. Czeschka, Emil Orlik, Karl
Walzer, E. J. Wimmer, Ludwig von Ploffmann
and Gordon Craig. Finally, some beautiful arts
and crafts objects from the Wiener Werkstatte and
artistic embroideries by various artists helped to
make the exhibition not only interesting but
instructive. A. S. L.

MOSCOW.—Konstantin Somoff has in
recent years almost entirely abandoned
painting in order to cultivate one or
other species of graphic art, and the
one-time portrait and landscape painter is now
giving place more and more to the decorative
illustrator and miniaturist. In this new role
Somoff shows no less a mastery than in his
earlier achievements. The illustration on this page
is a reproduction of a chromo-lithograph composed