Studio: international art (65.1915)

National Competition of Schools oj Art, 1915

BOX IN GILT AND COLOURED GESSO. BY HILDA JOYCE POCOCK
(POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE SCHOOL OF ART, MARYLEBONE)

Jeanne A. Labrousse for a mirror-frame with
ecclesiastical figures. Miss Irene Parker’s card-
box, the design based on Court and plain cards
and with a head of Fortune blindfolded on the
top, a blotter and paper-
knife by Miss Doris E.

Saffery, and the work of
Miss Dorothy C. Dumsday
and Miss Olive H. Dinjian
were other commendable
works in stained wood. All
these students belong to the
Polytechnic Institute.

Wood carving is not, as a
rule, one of the strong points
of the National Art Com-
petition exhibitions, but this
year examples of carving
gained high praise from the
judges, and gold medals for
Mr. David Evans, of Man-
chester School of Art, and
for Miss Alice Lilian Hitch-
cock, of Kensington (School
of Art Wood Carving), the
student whose numerous
honours were referred to
earlier in this article. The
work of Mr. Evans was a
carved frame for an illumi-
nated Roll of Honour of the
students of Manchester
School of Art who have

given their services to their country,
and that of Miss Hitchcock, a panel
of delicately modelled figures in low
relief. Of the decorated wooden
boxes in the exhibition a good
example was that shown by Miss
Hilda J. Pocock, of the Polytechnic
Institute School of Art, carried out
in gold and cream-coloured gesso
with touches of blue.

The pottery was more interesting,
in some respects, than that of 1914.
The complaint of the examiners last
year of the almost entire absence
of modelled figures in pottery or
porcelain was probably the cause
of the appearance of several of
these figures in the recent exhibi-
tion. The best by far was that of
a woman in long flowing robes of
purple and green, of the fashion of
the fifteenth century, by Mr. Joseph Bennison, of
Stoke-on-Trent (Hanley). Another good example
was the duck modelled by Miss Mary Soame, of
Stoke-on-Trent (Burslem). Very bold, and effec-

STAI NED-WOOD DRESSING-CASE. BY GWEN WHITE (POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE
SCHOOL OF ART, MARYLEBONE)

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