Studio: international art (65.1915)

Art School Notes

powers as a draughtsman for they were excellent
in character rendering. Almost all of his portrait
work is in dry-point. _

Previous to this first comprehensive exhibition
of his plates, Mr. Sturges had been working for a
number of years as an illustrator for one of the
great Metropolitan newspapers. This newspaper
experience broadened and deepened the knowledge
of the artist and gave him unusual facility. Prior
to this he had been trained in one of the best life
classes in Boston. After using the pen for years,
etching, which he took up in 1909, has become a
passion with him, and having regard to the extra-
ordinary progress he has made in so short a time
one can predict with confidence a brilliant future
for him in this field of work. He prints his own
plates, for, like many other etchers, he early saw
that the printing was just as important as etching
the plate. C. E.

ART SCHOOL NOTES.

IONDON.—At the South-Western Polytechnic
Institute in Manresa Road, Chelsea, the
election of Mr. Charles L. Hartwell as an
—^ Associate of the Royal Academy has
caused much satisfaction, Mr. Hartwell being the
teacher of modelling in the Art School of the
Institute. Mr. Glyn Philpot, who was elected an
Associate on the same occasion as Mr. Hartwell, is
an old student of the school.

BELFAST.—The School of Art of the
Municipal Technical Institute, Belfast,
has designed and made a Civic Banner
for the City Hall, which was displayed
recently in the Council Chamber. The banner is
probably unique as regards the method by which
it has been produced. To find a similar method
we should have to look back in history some

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BY DWIGHT c. STURGES

“LITTLE VIOLINIST” (DRY-POINT)

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