Studio: international art (56.1912)

The National Competition of Schools of Art, 1912

for a boy of seventeen.
Last year he showed a
clever pen and ink draw-
ing of Ipswich, which was
reproduced in these pages;
but higher artistic power
is displayed in his more
recent work, all the
material for which he has
found in and about this
town. The examiners
gave him a gold medal
for several frames of draw-
ings in pencil and colour,
which include several
capital interiors, the most
striking of these being A
Suggestion from the Life
Room, here reproduced.
His painting in oil of a
river with barges unload-
ing, though good in colour,
was too reminiscent of the

DESIGN FOR BOOK ILLUSTRATION BY WALTER F. V. ANSON (LEICESTER) Work of Mr. BrangWyn to

be entirely satisfactory, and

little or none in design. In manipulation ol was less successful than the sketch of the same sub-
material the students have accomplished far more ject in charcoal that was shown with it. Another

than their compeers of twenty years ago, but they capital design for an illustration drawn with

seem to be lacking in in-
vention and content to
work on lines that are
respectable but not in-
spired. In England there
appears to be a lull in
original design at present,
and a general tendency to
fall back upon old ideas.

So much is this the case
that the manufacture of
acknowledged replicas of
the work of eighteenth-
century cabinet-makers
has developed into a regu-
lar London industry.

Some of the most
promising work in the
National Art Competition
was seen in the designs
for book illustrations, the
best of which showed un-
common merit. Special
praise is due to Leonard
L. Squirrell, of Ipswich,

whose work is astonishing design for book illustration by Walter f. v. anson (Leicester)

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