Studio: international art (74.1918)

The Goldsmiths College School of Art

calLs to mind, among notable past students of
recent years, that youthful sculptor of genius,
Lieutenant Ernest A. Cole, whose beautiful
marble statue of John the Baptist holds a place
of honour in the wonderful art-collection of
Mr. Edmund Davis, and whose sculptured
decoration for the new hall of the London County
Council, designed by Mr. R. Knott, is likely to
win much consideration after the war ; while his
remarkable drawings and dry-points, done in his
student days with masterly ease, are already
prized in choice collections and eagerly sought
after by connoisseurs. Another modelling pupil
of talent, one remembers, was Mrs. W. P. Robins
—wife of the distinguished etcher, himself for a
time a student here—whose promise evinced in
busts and statuettes of delicate vivacity and
exquisite grace, as well as in drawings and dry-
points of charming individuality, was lately
cut short by untimely death.

The school's live artistic interest in etching

and engraving was fostered sympathetically by
that versatile artist, Captain Lee Hankey>
during the years he guided the class, and this
enthusiasm Mr. Marriott, who has recently taken
over the class, continues to encourage in a
catholic spirit with results of which I shall
presently speak. Mr. Harold Speed, whose
" Practice and Science of Drawing " is a book
of really suggestive value, is responsible for
portrait painting and figure composition ; the
life class, so vital a factor in an art school, is
under the able, direction of Mr. Percy Buckman ;
while Mr. W. Amor Fenn lends his knowledge
and experience to the teaching of design,
chiefly in the direction of decorative pattern,
poster-work, and architectural proportion and
ornament. Then, for book illustration and
lithography, the students have had during the
past ten years the inestimable advantage of
sympathetic instruction and broad-minded ad-
vice from that masterly illustrator and draughts-

"RED CROSS GARDEN PARTY"

ETCHING BY DORIS DAVIS