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Nr. 219 (June 1911)
DOI Artikel:Art school notes
DOI Artikel:Reviews and notices
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Reviews and Notices
general appearance of the original with remarkable
fidelity.
The Royal Academy schools suffered a great
loss by the death of Mr. Ernest Crofts, R.A., who
as Keeper had been in charge of them for nearly
thirteen years. Mr. Crofts fulfilled the manifold
duties of his position admirably and his death has
been deeply regretted by the hundreds of students,
past and present, whose work from time to time he
directed. The students wish to show their appre-
ciation of the late Keeper by erecting a memorial
tablet of marble in the church at Blythburgh,
Suffolk, and a committee has been formed to carry
out this project. Mr. Crofts had many connections
with Suffolk, where most of his ancestors are
buried, and at Blythburgh, a quaint little town not
far from the artists' village of Walberswick, he owned
a house where for years he had been accustomed
to spend part of the summer. The Committee
will be glad to receive contributions (not to
exceed half a guinea) towards the memorial fund,
from students who worked in the Academy schools
during the Keepership of Mr. Crofts. They
should be sent to the Manager, London County
and Westminster Bank, 21 Hanover Square, W.,
for the " Ernest Crofts Memorial" Account. Past
students who wish for further information can
obtain it from Mr. G. P. Anzino, Wahroonga,
Nepean Street, Roehampton, S.W.
Mr. Crofts was the eleventh Keeper of the Royal
Academy. The Keeper is supposed among many
other things "to regulate all things relating to the
schools, to preserve order among the students, and
to give them such advice and instruction as they
shall require." In the earlier days of the Academy
the Keeper did most of the actual teaching, and
had the power, practically, to admit students on his
own responsibility, but the Keeper of to-day acts
as a general director rather than as a teacher.
Not merely the schools but the whole fabric and
property of the Royal Academy are in his charge,
and with the larger responsibility his remuneration
has been increased proportionately. The salary
has been raised by degrees until it is now ^800 a
year, and the " convenient apartment" at one time
assigned to the holder of office has developed into
the well-appointed house in the corner of the
Burlington House quadrangle that is now the
official residence of the Keeper.
Some attractive jewellery and decorative metal-
work was shown at the fifth exhibition of the Sir
John Cass Arts and Crafts Society, held in Sloane
Street. The society is composed of the students
and staff of the well-known City school of applied
art, where the instruction is upon the most practical
and professional lines, and the average standard
of the work at the exhibition was commendably
high. Mr. Harold Stabler set his pupils a good
example by contributing some enamelled candle-
sticks and a silver jug and bowl of excellent work-
manship ; Mr. Gilbert Bayes and Mr. R. Wells
showed modelled work of good quality; and Mr.
C. E. Kruger a capital study in pencil and several
water-colours. The jewellery included a dainty
gold necklace by Miss Martineau ; some interesting
work in silver by Miss Drummond ; and necklaces
and pendants by Mr. C. M. Kirkman. The con-
tributors to the exhibition also included Miss
Brooke Clarke, Miss Bousfield, Mr. Eichberger,
Miss Kinkead, Miss Shipwright, Miss L. Rimming-
ton, Miss V. Ramsay, Mrs. Stabler, Mr. E. P.
Agnew, Mr. C. E. M. Bousfield, and Mr. H. J.
Manwering.
This year an unusually large number of the old
students of the St. John's Wood Art Schools
are represented in the exhibition of the Royal
Academy. So many of our younger painters and
draughtsmen have been trained in the studios at
Elm Tree Road that it would be impossible to
mention all of them whose work is to be seen just
now at Burlington House, but they include among
others Mr. F. Cadogan Cowper, A.R.A.; Mr.
Ralph Peacock, Mr. Byam Shaw, Mr. H. G.
Riviere, Mr. L. Campbell Taylor, Mr. R. Vicat
Cole, Mr. John da Costa, Mr. C. E. Brock, Mr.
Lewis Baumer, and Mr. L. A. Pownall.
W. T. W.
REVIEWS AND NOTICES
Glasgow. Fifty drawings by Muirhead Bone.
(Glasgow: James MacLehose & Sons.) Ordinary
edition, £2 2s. net. ; Portfolio edition, ^3 3^. net.
—The camera is always trying to rival the pencil, to
render over again with its own uncanny truthfulness
effects that have been tried in pencil. But in these
drawings we have the pencil pressing the camera
close in regard to minuteness of realism, inserting
though what the camera can never insert, the
affectionate touch in expressing that detail which
no machine on earth can feel, even with an artist
like Alvin Langdon Coburn behind it. Speaking
generally of this volume we think perhaps it would
have gained in character if the pastels and the more
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general appearance of the original with remarkable
fidelity.
The Royal Academy schools suffered a great
loss by the death of Mr. Ernest Crofts, R.A., who
as Keeper had been in charge of them for nearly
thirteen years. Mr. Crofts fulfilled the manifold
duties of his position admirably and his death has
been deeply regretted by the hundreds of students,
past and present, whose work from time to time he
directed. The students wish to show their appre-
ciation of the late Keeper by erecting a memorial
tablet of marble in the church at Blythburgh,
Suffolk, and a committee has been formed to carry
out this project. Mr. Crofts had many connections
with Suffolk, where most of his ancestors are
buried, and at Blythburgh, a quaint little town not
far from the artists' village of Walberswick, he owned
a house where for years he had been accustomed
to spend part of the summer. The Committee
will be glad to receive contributions (not to
exceed half a guinea) towards the memorial fund,
from students who worked in the Academy schools
during the Keepership of Mr. Crofts. They
should be sent to the Manager, London County
and Westminster Bank, 21 Hanover Square, W.,
for the " Ernest Crofts Memorial" Account. Past
students who wish for further information can
obtain it from Mr. G. P. Anzino, Wahroonga,
Nepean Street, Roehampton, S.W.
Mr. Crofts was the eleventh Keeper of the Royal
Academy. The Keeper is supposed among many
other things "to regulate all things relating to the
schools, to preserve order among the students, and
to give them such advice and instruction as they
shall require." In the earlier days of the Academy
the Keeper did most of the actual teaching, and
had the power, practically, to admit students on his
own responsibility, but the Keeper of to-day acts
as a general director rather than as a teacher.
Not merely the schools but the whole fabric and
property of the Royal Academy are in his charge,
and with the larger responsibility his remuneration
has been increased proportionately. The salary
has been raised by degrees until it is now ^800 a
year, and the " convenient apartment" at one time
assigned to the holder of office has developed into
the well-appointed house in the corner of the
Burlington House quadrangle that is now the
official residence of the Keeper.
Some attractive jewellery and decorative metal-
work was shown at the fifth exhibition of the Sir
John Cass Arts and Crafts Society, held in Sloane
Street. The society is composed of the students
and staff of the well-known City school of applied
art, where the instruction is upon the most practical
and professional lines, and the average standard
of the work at the exhibition was commendably
high. Mr. Harold Stabler set his pupils a good
example by contributing some enamelled candle-
sticks and a silver jug and bowl of excellent work-
manship ; Mr. Gilbert Bayes and Mr. R. Wells
showed modelled work of good quality; and Mr.
C. E. Kruger a capital study in pencil and several
water-colours. The jewellery included a dainty
gold necklace by Miss Martineau ; some interesting
work in silver by Miss Drummond ; and necklaces
and pendants by Mr. C. M. Kirkman. The con-
tributors to the exhibition also included Miss
Brooke Clarke, Miss Bousfield, Mr. Eichberger,
Miss Kinkead, Miss Shipwright, Miss L. Rimming-
ton, Miss V. Ramsay, Mrs. Stabler, Mr. E. P.
Agnew, Mr. C. E. M. Bousfield, and Mr. H. J.
Manwering.
This year an unusually large number of the old
students of the St. John's Wood Art Schools
are represented in the exhibition of the Royal
Academy. So many of our younger painters and
draughtsmen have been trained in the studios at
Elm Tree Road that it would be impossible to
mention all of them whose work is to be seen just
now at Burlington House, but they include among
others Mr. F. Cadogan Cowper, A.R.A.; Mr.
Ralph Peacock, Mr. Byam Shaw, Mr. H. G.
Riviere, Mr. L. Campbell Taylor, Mr. R. Vicat
Cole, Mr. John da Costa, Mr. C. E. Brock, Mr.
Lewis Baumer, and Mr. L. A. Pownall.
W. T. W.
REVIEWS AND NOTICES
Glasgow. Fifty drawings by Muirhead Bone.
(Glasgow: James MacLehose & Sons.) Ordinary
edition, £2 2s. net. ; Portfolio edition, ^3 3^. net.
—The camera is always trying to rival the pencil, to
render over again with its own uncanny truthfulness
effects that have been tried in pencil. But in these
drawings we have the pencil pressing the camera
close in regard to minuteness of realism, inserting
though what the camera can never insert, the
affectionate touch in expressing that detail which
no machine on earth can feel, even with an artist
like Alvin Langdon Coburn behind it. Speaking
generally of this volume we think perhaps it would
have gained in character if the pastels and the more
83