Studio: international art (65.1915)

National Competition of Schools of Art, igij

LEATHER BOOK COVER. BY
ANNIE HUGILL (KEIGHLEY
SCHOOL OF ART)

Students should not forget
that a window, even of
stained glass, is intended
to admit light. This
criticism, however, does
not apply to the pleasantly
arranged panel with
heraldic devices shown by
Mr. Frank M. Benfield, of
Hammersmith School of
Arts and Crafts.

Miss Hilda Butcher, of
Ipswich School of Art,
was awarded a silver medal
for a striking design for a
stencilled curtain with
squirrels, grapes, and vine
leaves on a grey ground.
Another stencilled curtain,
less novel but richer in
colour, and bordered with
a running pattern of
hounds chasing deer, was
contributed by a Chelms-
ford student, Miss Maud
M. F owler, who also gained
a silver medal. The sten-
cilled hanging by Miss
Rosa C. Lister, of Ipswich,

must be accounted a most creditable effort if
the student’s age—fourteen—was correctly given
on the label. Designs for “South American
dress materials” by Mr. Daniel W. Sharp, of
Nelson School of Art, light in fabric and har-
monious in colour, indicated that Lancashire
manufacturers are not neglecting the possibilities
of one of the most profitable of the German
markets. Among many other designs for fabrics
those for machine-made lace by Mr. Darral P.
Clarke and other Nottingham students should
be mentioned; and for pillowT-made lace by
Miss Florence R. Ingle, of Cork, and a quaint
curtain in cut linen and drawn thread by Miss
Mignon L. Evans, of Dublin. An embroidered
overmantel for a nursery, with figures of Dick
Whittington, Mother Goose, Little Red Riding
Hood, and others worked in bright colours by
Miss Gwladys Jones, of Birmingham (Margaret
Street), was well adapted for its intended pur-
pose ; and another interesting piece of needle-

ILLUSTRATION FOR “GULLIVER’S TRAVELS.” BY FRED C. JONES (BRADFORD
SCHOOL OF ART)

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