Studio: international art (65.1915)

National Competition of Schools of Art, 1915

P DREAMS ARE OF LIFE THF BETTER PA1

RED RIDING HOOD

MOTHER COPSEj j DICK WHITTINGTON f) BO PEEP

LITTLE MISSMUFFET

EMBROIDERED OVERMANTEL FOR A NURSERY

BY GWLADYS TONES (BIRMINGHAM, MARGARET STREET)

art schools, and it is applicable to other) classes of a capital profile of a man’s head, and Miss Alice
design as well, but in view of the important position L. Hitchcock, of Clapham, a study from the nude

which the textile industries occupy in this country, in which the character and girlishness of the model

a strenuous effort should
be made to rectify the
shortcoming pointed out
by the examiners (Mr.

J. H. Dearie, Mr. Frank
Warner and Mr. Arthur
Wilcock), whose associa-
tion with these industries
entitles them to speak
with authority on the
subject. They also touch
upon another weak spot
in textile designing when
speaking of the designs
for damask sent up,
namely, the overcrowding
of the design with detail
and the need for simpler
types of design.

In the sections of paint-
ing and drawing an un-
usually large number of
still-life studies in oil and
water-colour was shown.

The average quality was
high for school work, but
there was nothing so in-
dividual as one or two of
the examples in last year’s
exhibition. The paintings
from the life included
nothing remarkable, but
there were some good
drawings. Miss Dorothy
C. Bunn, of Birmingham

, 0 DESIGN FOR EMBROIDERED CUSHION-COVER AND THE SAME AS EXECUTED. BY

(Margaret Street), showed Gladys elton (Harris institute school of art, preston)