Studio: international art (88.1924)

SIR FRANK SHORT

Albert Museum. Under the aegis of Frank
Short, however, a freer artistic principle
prevailed from the first. The students
were encouraged to utter their own pic-
torial conceptions on the copper, while
learning all that the master could teach
them of craftsmanship, so that they might
become freely articulate as artists. In that
spirit, therefore, the " Etching Class " of
1891, with its five or six students, gradually
developed into the famous School of En-
graving it is to-day, with its diplomas
and the studentship numbering between
sixty and seventy. 0000
What changes have been seen in the inter-
val of thirty-three years! Frank Short
himself has unobtrusively attained a
succession of honours previously accorded
to no original engraver, honours conferred
by the Academic body, by the choice of his
fellow-artists, by the Sovereign. He has
been a most distinguished factor in the
winning of popular favour for original etch-
ing, while he has justified to admiration
Ruskin's belief, uttered to him long ago,

" MORNING HAZE IN CHICHESTER
HARBOUR." AQUATINT BY SIR
FRANK SHORT, R.A., P.R.E.

(Published by H. C. Dickins)

that " fine landscape mezzotint had yet a
wide field open to it," though he has with
equal justice defied the great man's advice
not to waste his time on aquatint! How
Sir Frank Short has done these things we
are privileged to show in a few examples
of his recent achievements, while the
secret of his success as an interpreter on
copper of the great English water-colourists
may be found in the beautiful Arundel
Castle. Few lovers of his prints, perhaps,
know how charmingly subtle a colourist
Sir Frank is ; but he loves water-colour,
he enjoys pastel; who knows to what fresh
adventures in colour his leisure may urge
him t Meanwhile his approved old pupil,
Mr. Malcolm Osborne, A.R.A., a sensitive
artist, a master-craftsman, will carry on
the Professor's traditions, with an able
assistant in Mr. Job Nixon; but the inspira-
tion of Sir Frank Short's teaching, with
the loyal and invaluable collaboration of
Miss Constance Pott, who leaves with him,
must always remain a priceless asset to the
School of Engraving. a a a

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