Studio: international art (58.1913)

Art School Notes

Garret competition, was'held
in November at South Ken-
sington, where the sketches
and models were displayed
in the iron buildings behind
the Natural History
Museum. The clubs repre-
sented were fewer in number
than those that competed
in the preceding year. The
judges, Mr. Seymour Lucas,
R.A., Sir George Frampton,
R.A., and Mr. Arnesby
Brown, A.R.A., gave the
award of honour for the best
set of sketches to the Royal
College of Art. The College,
which has gained the award
of honour for several years
in succession, also carried
off four prizes. Mr. A. M.
Boss won the first prize for
figure {The Dance) for the
Birkbeck College School of
Art, the head-master of
which, Mr. A W. Mason,
was one of the origi-
nators of the competition
now called the Gilbert-

A YOUNG NOBLE OF THE FUJIWARA PERIOD BY TAKAHASHI KOKO

(See Tokvo Studio-Talk, opposite page) Garret Other prizes were

awarded to students of the

prize was withheld. The President thought that Royal Academy, the Polytechnic (Regent Street),

the landscapes in the Creswick competition, subject the City and Guilds Institute, the Grosvenor Life

In an Orchard, were among the best ever shown at School, and the Lambeth School of Art.

the schools, and the first prize of ^25 and medal -

gained by Miss Evelyn Muriel Young was sup- The winter exhibition of students' work at the

plemented by a special award of ^5 given to St. John's Wood Art Schools showed that the high

Miss Una Hook for the second best landscape. standard of previous years was fully maintained

Mr. James Williams gained the first prize for the and in some respects surpassed. The silver medal,

best design for the decoration of a portion of a for the best paintings of a nude figure and a head,

public building. The work in this competition was, was awarded to Miss D. Litchfield, who also

generally speaking, well above the average, which carried off the scholarship for the best drawings

is more than can be said of the designs for the best from the life. The judges in the figure competi-

composition of colour. The first Armitage prize tions were Mr. J. W.Waterhouse, R.A., Mr. S. J.

for a design in monochrome, and the first prize for Solomon, R.A., and Mr. William Hatherell, R.I. ;

drawing from the life, fell to Mr. H. E. Quick, who and for landscape, Mr. Arnesby Brown, A.R.A.

also gained a Lands'eer Scholarship in painting. The prize given by the proprietors of "The

In the sculptor's competition for modelling Mr. Graphic" was awarded to Miss F. M. Asher; and

A. H. Wilkinson was the winner and the travelling the Frederick Walker prize (given by Mr. J. J.

studentship in architecture was taken by Mr. Oliver Walker, a relative of the famous painter) to Miss

F. Savage. _ D. Mostyn. The Montague prizes, given by Lord

Svvaythling, fell to Miss D. Fairclough, Miss B.

The annual trial of strength between the London Hirschfield, Miss K. Cuff, and Mr. A. K. Hill,

students' sketching clubs, known as the Gilbert- The large pictures for wall decoration painted last

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