Studio: international art (47.1909)

The National Competition of Schools of Art, igog

DESIGN FOR POSTER BY WILLIAM S. BROADHEAD (SHEFFIELD)

by any other hands. He designed the illustrations,
decorative borders, initials and tailpieces, and
printed and bound the volume. The pages are
printed in red and black, and the little illustrations
are certainly creditable. It was, of course, hardly
to be expected that they could realise for us the
magic of Coleridge’s marvellous verses, that have
yet to find their real illus-
trator. More of our
younger artists might with
advantage try their hands
on “ The Ancient Mari-
ner,” and give a little rest
to Omar Khayyam. Other
illustrations in the exhibi-
tion that are worthy of
praise were by Miss Enid
Ledward, of Putney, and
Miss Ethel Whittaker, of
Scarborough.

It is perhaps due, indi-
rectly, to the influence of
Mr. Brangwyn that the
exhibition of the National
Art C ompetition con-
tained so many designs
for composition in which
the modern shipwright,
wharves and docks are
the motives. Mr. Leslie design for auto-litiiograph

M. Ward, of Bournemouth, has re-
ceived a gold medal principally for
his designs of this kind, and there were
others more or less good by Miss
Dorothy Bateman, Miss Violet E.
Hawkes, Miss Minnie P. Cox, and Mr.
James A. Grant, all of Liverpool.
Mr. Grant was seen to greater advan-
tage in his design for a painted panel
in oil, with ladies in Watteau dresses,
gardens, fauns and cupids. The exe-
cution, light and free in handling, and
in colour tender and harmonious, was
exactly fitted to the subject. Some
of the best work in illumination and
lettering came from Miss Mildred
Armstrong, of Newcastle-on-Tyne
(Armstrong College) ; Miss Ivy E.
Harper, of Birmingham (Margaret
Street): Miss Daisy Tuff, of Islington
(Camden); and Mr. Will Mellor, of
Manchester. The designs for printed
nursery cotton hangings, by Frank
Middleton, of Regent Street Polytech-
nic, were quaint and amusing, and among the few
posters should be mentioned those of Mr. William
S. Broadhead, of Sheffield ; Mr. Harold Dearden,
of Rochdale, and Miss Winifred Fison, of the
Royal Female School of Art.

Work in sculptured marble is rarely to be seen
at the National Art Competition exhibitions, and

BY ALEX. HORSNELL (CHELMSFORD)

293