Studio: international art (51.1911)

Art School Notes

DESIGN FOR A NURSERY FRIEZE

(Gilbert- Garret Competition, 1910, First Prize for design)

BY W. PAYNE-GALLWEY

in the competition, and all were fairly represented
with the exception of the Royal Academy, which
rarely shines in these contests, probably because
its stronger students are fully occupied in working
for the many prizes that are in the gift of the
senior art institution. Mr. George H. Day, of the
Royal College of Art (South Kensington), made
what is possibly a record in these competitions by
winning the first prizes both in figure and land-
scape. His admirable sketch in oil, illustrating
a scene in the Japanese Village at the White
City, which gained the figure prize, is reproduced
in colour on the opposite page. Mr. W. Mac-
millan, another South Kensington student, won
the first modelling prize with a vigorous study of
a man struggling with a captured eagle; Mr. W.
Payne-Gallwey, of the Grosvenor School, the first
prize for design, with a quaintly humorous nursery
frieze; and Miss Hickson, of the Royal Academy,
the first prize for an animal subject, with a painting,
pleasant in tone, of horses in a sunny landscape.
The other prizewinners included Mr. A. Cooper
(two), Mr. H. A. Budd, Mr. C. Worsley and
Mr. Preston, all of South Kensington; Miss Cecil
M. Sprot and Miss M. Caldwell, of the Calderon
School of Animal Painting; Miss V. Parkes, of the
Gilbert-Garret Club; Mr. Dendy, Mr. F. C. Witney
and Miss M. Thrupp, of Lambeth; Miss E. Brad-
bury, of Clapham; and Miss E. Busse, of the
Polytechnic- (Regent Street). The judges in the
competition were Mr. Arthur Hacker, R.A.;
Mr. Alfred Parsons, A.R.A.; and Mr. W. R.
Colton, A.R.A. _

Mr. Charles Sims, A.R.A., who is one of the
visitors at the Byam Shaw and Vicat Cole School
of Art, recently gave the students a valuable
practical lesson by painting a head in their presence,
and explaining stage by stage his method of
working. The head was painted in oil life-size and
was finished in about two hours. The Byam
Shaw and Vicat Cole School was only opened a
few months ago in its newly erected studios in
Campden Street, Kensington, but its pupils have
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already settled down to steady and serious work.
Courses of lessons in water-colour painting have
been arranged under the direction of Miss Eleanor
Fortescue Brickdale, A.R.W.S.; there is a class
for portrait painting under Mr. W. Dacres Adams,
and another for pen-and-ink work and all kinds
of book embellishment by Mr. Byam Shaw.

At the Heatherley School the autumn exhibition
of sketches showed a great advance upon that of
last year. The work was not judged for prizes,
but the competitors themselves gave their votes to
what they regarded as the best studies in each
section. For figure composition, Mr. J. B. Bald-
win ; and for landscape Mr. F. Holmes secured the
majority of suffrages; in design the honours were
taken by Mr. S. W. Stanley. W. T. W.

BELFAST.—The annual exhibition of work
by students of the School of Art at the
Municipal Technical Institute, was held
in November, and the quality of the
work shown pointed to a general advance in

SKETCH DESIGN FOR MURAL PAINTING

BY EMMA G. GREW
(Municipal School of Art, Belfast)