DOI Heft:
No. 299 (February 1918)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21356#0034
Studio-Talk
Professor's career and work which appeared in knowledge and artistic power. He was^con-
this magazine some five or six years ago, said : cerned in starting a Hospital for Facial In-
" England should be grateful to such a master juries, and is now associated with the Queen's
for its awakening from a sleep of endless sorrow Hospital at Sidcup, that is entirely devoted to
to a vision of future joy. It is certain that this purpose. An interesting series of draw-
hundreds who have enjoyed his loving and ings and models by him in connexion with the
unwearying care will join their gratitude to work of facial lestoration is now on exhibition
that of one who was his first pupil nigh forty at the College of Surgeons,
years ago." ---
In the work of the Slade School during the
Mr. Henry Tonks has been elected by the current term Professor Tonks will be assisted
Senate of London University to the Slade Chair for the time being by his predecessor, Professor
of Fine Art at University College in succession Brown, and by Mr. Wilson Steer. The work
to Professor Frederick Brown, who recently of the Sculpture Department will continue to
resigned after holding the Chair since 1892. be in the hands of Professor Havard Thomas.
The new Slade Professor was born in 1862, and --
though in early life art made' a strong appeal Mr. F. W. Pomeroy, A.R.A., sculptor, was
to him, he was destined after leaving Clifton at a recent meeting of the Royal Academy of
College to devote the first years of his manhood Arts promoted to full membership. He was
to a surgical career. He qualified as a Fellow elected Associate in 1906. The honours list
of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1888, but promulgated at the opening of the year con-
had already given rein to his artistic impulses tained the names of one R.A.—Mr. David
during his leisure by attending the
Westminster School of Art, of
which Professor Brown was then
principal; and continuing his
studies there until the latter was
called to occupy the Slade Chair,
he himself shortly afterwards mi-
grated to the Slade and became
assistant professor. The co-opera-
tion of these two men throughout
the twenty-five years of their
association has been productive
of far-reaching results, and to it
is due in large measure the signal
success which the Slade School
has attained among the art train-
ing institutions of the metropolis.
Professor Tonks has been closely
associated with the New English
Art Club since its foundation, and
the influence he has exercised as
a painter as well as teacher has
been considerable. He is repre-
sented at the Tate Gallery by
pastel portraits of M. and Mme.
Rodin, a self-portrait, and a Study
of a Girl. He has served during
the war in the Roval Army Medi-
cal Corps, and has utilized for the
service of his country in a remark-
able way his combination of medical "THE ROAD FROM ARRAS TO BAPAUME " BY C. R. W. NEVINSON
28
Professor's career and work which appeared in knowledge and artistic power. He was^con-
this magazine some five or six years ago, said : cerned in starting a Hospital for Facial In-
" England should be grateful to such a master juries, and is now associated with the Queen's
for its awakening from a sleep of endless sorrow Hospital at Sidcup, that is entirely devoted to
to a vision of future joy. It is certain that this purpose. An interesting series of draw-
hundreds who have enjoyed his loving and ings and models by him in connexion with the
unwearying care will join their gratitude to work of facial lestoration is now on exhibition
that of one who was his first pupil nigh forty at the College of Surgeons,
years ago." ---
In the work of the Slade School during the
Mr. Henry Tonks has been elected by the current term Professor Tonks will be assisted
Senate of London University to the Slade Chair for the time being by his predecessor, Professor
of Fine Art at University College in succession Brown, and by Mr. Wilson Steer. The work
to Professor Frederick Brown, who recently of the Sculpture Department will continue to
resigned after holding the Chair since 1892. be in the hands of Professor Havard Thomas.
The new Slade Professor was born in 1862, and --
though in early life art made' a strong appeal Mr. F. W. Pomeroy, A.R.A., sculptor, was
to him, he was destined after leaving Clifton at a recent meeting of the Royal Academy of
College to devote the first years of his manhood Arts promoted to full membership. He was
to a surgical career. He qualified as a Fellow elected Associate in 1906. The honours list
of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1888, but promulgated at the opening of the year con-
had already given rein to his artistic impulses tained the names of one R.A.—Mr. David
during his leisure by attending the
Westminster School of Art, of
which Professor Brown was then
principal; and continuing his
studies there until the latter was
called to occupy the Slade Chair,
he himself shortly afterwards mi-
grated to the Slade and became
assistant professor. The co-opera-
tion of these two men throughout
the twenty-five years of their
association has been productive
of far-reaching results, and to it
is due in large measure the signal
success which the Slade School
has attained among the art train-
ing institutions of the metropolis.
Professor Tonks has been closely
associated with the New English
Art Club since its foundation, and
the influence he has exercised as
a painter as well as teacher has
been considerable. He is repre-
sented at the Tate Gallery by
pastel portraits of M. and Mme.
Rodin, a self-portrait, and a Study
of a Girl. He has served during
the war in the Roval Army Medi-
cal Corps, and has utilized for the
service of his country in a remark-
able way his combination of medical "THE ROAD FROM ARRAS TO BAPAUME " BY C. R. W. NEVINSON
28