Studio: international art (56.1912)

The National Competition of Schools of Art, 1912

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The fashion drawings by Helen S. Oliver (Leeds,
Vernon Street) received a special compliment from
the examiners, who awarded the student in question
a bronze medal for “her excellent and original
designs for modern costumes.” It is, however,
doubtful whether artists are the best judges of this
particular kind of work.

The designs for interior decoration included a
series of clever circular paintings by Winifred E.
Fitch (Hornsey), made to decorate the saloon of a
liner and illustrating The Four Winds. To these a
gold medal was awarded. A good design for an over-
mantel panel was contributed by an Ipswich student,
Beatrice M.' Steel. In the same section several com-
positions were shown by Violet E. Hawkes (Liver-

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pool). One of these, a sketch in black and white ol
a garden with Watteau-like figures, was particularly
good. A gold medal was given to Margaret Clarke
(Nottingham) for a modelled sketch design for an
overmantel for a music room, to be executed in
oak and bronze. The modelled design for a panel
representing blacksmiths at work, by Bernard F.
Walker (Birmingham, Margaret Street), was akin in
some respects to the work of the Belgian, Meunier.
It was rough, but effective and alive. A modelled
head in very high relief, carved in marble by Jessie
M. Riding (Liverpool) was praised by the examiners
for its beauty of workmanship. The modelling
generally was barely up to the average, but a full-
length figure of a young girl, charming in its grace

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