Studio: international art (62.1914)

The National Competition of Schools of Art, IQ14

treated panels in colour,
by Miss Isabel Airey, of
Kendal School of Art.

Hook illustration was well
represented by a large
variety of drawings and
designs, both in colour and
black and white. The ex-
aminers in noticing the
designs by Miss Alma K.
Elliott and Miss Bernice
A. S. Shaw, of the Leicester
School of Art, deplore
"the regrettable tendency
towards the prevailing but
morbid fashion." They
referred apparently to the in-
fluence of Aubrey Beardsley,
but nevertheless gave a
silver medal to Miss Shaw,
whose design certainly be-
trayed this influence in
marked manner. Miss
Shaw's skill of hand should
lead her to better things

modelled design for panel for a school entrance

by <;f:oroe r. hoff (nottingham)

when she learns to see for herself instead;
of through the eyes of another: and
there is considerable promise in the
delicate pencil-drawing of Miss Elliott.
Mr. Leonard Squirrell, the accomplished
young Ipswich student who had gained
many awards in previous competitions,
showed among many clever things a
vigorous pencil-drawing of a rough track
leading to a Claydon sandpit, and an
etching of a tidal river, tender in tone
and full of suggestions of atmosphere.
From the Ipswich school came also
some capital studies in line of pine trees
and their branches and cones—the kind
of drawings that Ruskin encouraged his
pupils to make—by Miss Constance I).
Murray. Sincere feeling for nature
characterised an etching of a cloudy,
low-toned landscape by Mr. William
H. Potter, of Chelmsford School of
Art: and other good illustrations were
the bold, strong drawing of a river
and dyke, with a church well placed
on the farther bank, by Mr. Stanley

leather book-cover. by dorothea cowie (acton and _ , , tt , . c . . .

chiswicf polytechnic) Peck, of Homsey School of Art; the