Studio: international art (49.1910)

Art School Notes

OAK CHEST BY MISS F. M. HOLTTUM

(City School of Art, Liverpool)

should be to show that they were really doing it.
The prevailing fault, said Mr. Strang, in figure
compositions generally, was that the people in
them were not doing the things at all. Fine poses
were no good if the figures were not telling the
story, not doing the work they were supposed to
be doing—if, in fact, they looked like a collection
of London art-school models. The critic illus-
trated his meaning by comments on the works
before him, and remarked that in one particular
picture (very well drawn, as he admitted) men
were shown pulling with tremendous energy at a
block of stone that was already leaning over
towards them. Another common failing in illus-
trating this kind of subject was to make rakes,
spades, and other common tools, too small.

In criticising another competition for the best
design for a title page, Mr. Strang insisted on clear
lettering. The lettering on a title page was of
supreme importance, and the decoration should
not be allowed to draw the eye away
from it. Nor should the lettering be
of the type that some architects were
fond of inventing--so fanciful that it
could hardly be read. The symbols
for lettering were now fixed, and the
deviation should in any case be no
more than a hair’s breadth. Mr.

Strang concluded his interesting and
most valuable comments by a few
words on drawing from life, in the
course of which he told the St.

Martin’s students that he personally
had never done any teaching, although
he had lots of theories on the subject.

Mr. Strang awarded the prizes for

figure composition to Mr.
William P. Roberts and Mr.
William P. Robins (bracketed
equal); for landscape (Street
Scene) to Mr. Sidney M. Litten
and (Moonlight) Mr. Albert
Petherbridge; for the best
design for a title page to Mr.
W. H. Manuel; and for draw-
ing from the life to Mr. F. A.
Bishop and Mr. H. Pecker.

At Lambeth School the
meeting of the Art Club was
accompanied by the usual ex-
hibition and a series of com-
petitions, in which Mr. F. W.
Pomeroy, A.R.A., himself an old Lambeth student,
acted as judge. Mr. Pomeroy awarded the prize
for design in colour to Miss Althea Summers;
for design in black - and - white to Mr. George
S. Perriman; for a design for a poster to Miss
Helen McKie; and for designs for stained-glass
windows to Mr. Eric Bradbury, who also won a
prize for book illustration, and another for model-
ling a decorative panel. The landscape prize was
awarded to Miss Evelyn Herbert; the prize for
painting a head in oils to Miss Augusta Prideaux ;
and the prize for the best still life group to Miss
Edmee Butler. Miss Maude was awarded an extra
prize for modelling, and honourable mentions were
given to Miss Margaret Johnston, Miss Payne,
Mr. Witney, Mr. Bertram Gilbert, Miss Legg, and
Miss Brooke.

The amalgamation has just been effected of two
important London Art Schools. Mr. Townsley,
who is returning for a time to America, has given