Studio: international art (48.1910)

Art School Notes

Birkbeck School, two or
three days before the re-
opening of the classes.

W. T. W.

The four illustrations
8R -rS-Tx 1 accompanying these notes

HHb \ \ I represent a few out of

. N : ! many good things shown

■K;. ~-jl at the recent annual exhi-

bition of students' work
at the Blackheath School
of Arts and Crafts, whose
principal, Mr. J. Howard
i^^^Hi Hale, F.S.A.M., is to be

congratulated on the high

book covers in carved wood and tooled leather by a. needham ; .t„„j„j nc .Holnmpnt

cover with tooled medallion by e. bullock. standard oi attainment

{Blackheath School of Arts and Crafts) which the exhibition as

a whole represented. On

nature, and to Miss Lavinia Billings for a still life the walls were to be seen a group of excellent

in oils. In the recent National Art Competition studies of heads done by various students, clever

prizes were gained by Mr. Thomas Frost, Mr. Isaac book illustrations by Miss D. Wheeler and Mr.

Rosen- H. Hopgood, a series of well-designed posters by

berg, and Mr. A. Needham and Mr. A. Lack, and some

Mr. Percy admirably executed flower studies by the Misses

v.--—_^,___——•—' W. Mere- A. Heinitz and M. Williams. But it was perhaps

dew. Free in the craft section that the good quality of the

N,, ) . ! student-

il *&. «>•*

ships were
i awarded
to Mr.
Arthur M.
Boff, Mr.

t;.: Reginald
*^«W->^* H. Lewis,

|± Miss
id N orah

G o w a n

"" '~------"—————'——------—1 and Miss

silver button and pendant Dorothea

by evelyn forth G o o d V

[Blackheath School of Arts and Crafts) .,'

and pupii-

teacher-

ships to Miss Norah Ray Williams, and to Miss
Viola D. Dunkley, who also gained a London
County Council School of Art scholarship. An
art master's certificate was awarded to Miss Grace
Hudson, and an art teacher's certificate to Miss
Edith M. Sayer, and the Birkbeck Council Student-
ship was taken by Miss Gertrude M. Lichtenberger
for designs for lace. These designs, together with
examples of the lace executed by Miss Lichten-
berger, were included in the attractive exhibition

of students' work that was held last month at the taunton. design based on aconite

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carved walnut grate or fire screen