Studio: international art (59.1913)

The Nationac Competition of Schools of Art, 1913

PAINTED SILK FAN

BY ELEANOR M. WOOLMER (IPSWICH)

of such an army as Henry the Fifth may have led
at Agincourt. The vast, swelling curves of the
ships’ bows, rising high above the crowds of
knights and men-at-arms, were important factors in
a well-managed composition which, however, would
look much better in a stronger medium than pencil.

Drawings of some of the ancient houses at
Ipswich, the interesting Suffolk town where
Gainsborough worked for fourteen years or more,
gained a medal for Mr. Leonard R. Squirrell of the
Ipswich School of Art. Demolition was perhaps the
best of a set of able drawings, but all of them were
somewhat too heavy and gloomy in tone. Miss
Dorothy E. G. Woollard of Bristol (Queen’s Road)

carried off prizes in several sections of illustration.
Her studies of gnarled tree-trunks and roots
were faithful representations of natural form that
would have pleased Ruskin, who liked to give his
students such examples to copy; and a pencil
drawing of an old man’s head was also good of its
kind. The delicate pencil drawings by Miss Alma
K. M. Elliott of Leicester School of Art, the
wood-engraving of a barge on a dark river by
Mr. John B. Robinson of Kingston-upon-Hull, the
etching of trees by Miss Ada I. Lewis of Bristol
(Queen’s Road), and the work of Mr. Frank M.
Jobson of Hackney Institute School of Art, Miss
Constance M. Rowley of Beckenham, and Miss

BY ADA C. SARGENT (IPSWICH)

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DESIGN FOR A PAINTED PANEL