Studio: international art (60.1914)

Art School Notes

once unrepresented. The award of honour for the
best collection of sketches, and four out of five
first prizes, went to the Royal College of Art; and
the other clubs strongly represented included the
Grosvenor, the Byam Shaw and Vicat Cole, the
London Art School, and the Gilbert-Garret. The
first prize for figure composition (subject A
Holiday’) was awarded to Mr. W. J. Rowden
(Royal College) ; but there, was more promise in a
curious low-toned painting of a woman and children
seated in a meadow, shown by Mr. Bunt of the
Byam Shaw and Vicat Cole School. First prizes
in landscape, sculpture, and poster design were
given respectively to Mr. H. Youngman, Mr. C. W.
Wheeler, and Mr. A. W. Moore of the Royal
College ; and for animal painting to Mr. H. Hubner
of the Gilbert-Garret for a study of Polar bears and
icebergs. W. T. W.

The Gilbert-Garret competition was founded at
the St. Martin’s School of Art in 1870. This
school, probably the oldest public art school in
London, then occupied the top floor of an elemen-
tary school in Endell Street, but now after nearly
sixty years in these restricted quarters it finds itself
in possession of more commodious and convenient
premises in Charing Cross Road adjoining St.
Mary’s Church, which have been assigned to it by
the London County Council. Here ample ac-

commodation is available for the increasing number
of students attending the various day and evening
classes and for the meetings of the Sketch Club
which serves to bring together the past and present
students of the school. Black-and-white drawing
and designing for posters, advertisements, book-
illustration, &c., are prominent features of the
curriculum, which also includes—besides the usual
art-school subjects—etching, art needlework, and
architectural drawing. Mr. J. E. Allen, A.R.C.A.,
is the Principal, and he is assisted by a staff of
twelve teachers.

HULL.—Mr. J. Barrie Robinson is one
of a small band of workers at the
Kingston-upon-Hull Municipal School
of Art who have been attracted by the
modern revival of the earlier reproductive arts, and
in the accompanying illustrations some results of
his experiments in the manner of the early wood-
block printers are shown. Always a close student
of nature, he of necessity at first interpreted her
chiefly in her simpler moods, making the most of
the technical advantages offered by the silhouette.
With increased power of expression, however,
greater subtleties of tone have ensued, as in the
evening dock scene at Hull, and this development
no doubt heralds a still wider range of expression,
including colour. Mr. Robinson was very success-