DOI issue:
No. 306 (September 1918)
DOI article:Salaman, Malcolm C.: The Goldsmiths' College School of Art
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21265#0130
The Goldsmiths College School of Art
medium, a point on which Mr. Sullivan lays due smiths' College etching students ; and it is an
stress. Indeed, he regards it as important that, excellent idea of Mr. Marriott's to stimulate
as potential book-illustrators, bis pupils shall their study of the essentials of facial expression
acquire some insight into the reproductive and character by encouraging them to etch their
processes for which their work may be designed, own and each other's portraits direct from life.
But it is among the etchings illustrating this Some of these are curiously interesting. One
article that we may look for the most character- student, Miss Stacey, has etched a portrait of
istic expression of the students, whose graphic an old man which is of remarkable quality in
impulses, guided and stimulated in Mr. Sullivan's the true Rembrandt tradition,
class, find their way to the copper or the zinc The work of some of the most accomplished
under Mr. Marriott's helpful auspices. and promising students is exemplified among our
What specially interests me in the etching illustrations, and the development of these
class at the Goldsmiths' School is that the young etchers must be watched with interest,
students are encouraged
to concern themselves
with the pictorial aspects
of human life and cha-
racter, and to seek their
etching motives among
the actual scenes, inci-
dents, and types of the
life that swirls familiarly
or strangely around them.
This is refreshing; for
too much contemporary
British etching is pre-
occupied with landscape
and architecture to the
comparative exclusion of
the vital pictorial interest
of the human figure in
its multifarious activities.
The aspects of landscape
and of buildings must ever
cry out for the etcher's
needle and dry-point, and,
of course, there are stu-
dents at New Cross respon-
sive to their call. For
instance, Miss Gertrude
Ashworth, who is attracted
by the picturesque old inn,
and Miss Hilda C. Adams
who feels the beauty of
tree-growth with spread-
ing branches dominating
a spacious vista; while
nature in the form of bird-
life " among the leaves "
charms the sense and skill
of Mr. G. E. Collins. But
human life is the prevail-
ing interest of the Gold- design for a showcard in colours by w. h. birch
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medium, a point on which Mr. Sullivan lays due smiths' College etching students ; and it is an
stress. Indeed, he regards it as important that, excellent idea of Mr. Marriott's to stimulate
as potential book-illustrators, bis pupils shall their study of the essentials of facial expression
acquire some insight into the reproductive and character by encouraging them to etch their
processes for which their work may be designed, own and each other's portraits direct from life.
But it is among the etchings illustrating this Some of these are curiously interesting. One
article that we may look for the most character- student, Miss Stacey, has etched a portrait of
istic expression of the students, whose graphic an old man which is of remarkable quality in
impulses, guided and stimulated in Mr. Sullivan's the true Rembrandt tradition,
class, find their way to the copper or the zinc The work of some of the most accomplished
under Mr. Marriott's helpful auspices. and promising students is exemplified among our
What specially interests me in the etching illustrations, and the development of these
class at the Goldsmiths' School is that the young etchers must be watched with interest,
students are encouraged
to concern themselves
with the pictorial aspects
of human life and cha-
racter, and to seek their
etching motives among
the actual scenes, inci-
dents, and types of the
life that swirls familiarly
or strangely around them.
This is refreshing; for
too much contemporary
British etching is pre-
occupied with landscape
and architecture to the
comparative exclusion of
the vital pictorial interest
of the human figure in
its multifarious activities.
The aspects of landscape
and of buildings must ever
cry out for the etcher's
needle and dry-point, and,
of course, there are stu-
dents at New Cross respon-
sive to their call. For
instance, Miss Gertrude
Ashworth, who is attracted
by the picturesque old inn,
and Miss Hilda C. Adams
who feels the beauty of
tree-growth with spread-
ing branches dominating
a spacious vista; while
nature in the form of bird-
life " among the leaves "
charms the sense and skill
of Mr. G. E. Collins. But
human life is the prevail-
ing interest of the Gold- design for a showcard in colours by w. h. birch
124