Identifier: internationalstu10newy08 (find matches)
Title: International Studio an Illustrated Magazine of Fine and Applied Art
Year: 1908 (1900s)
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Publisher: New York. John Lane Co
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University-Idaho

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in the forthcoming exhibition.The United States has applied for a vast amountof wall space, and has already sent over some ofthe three hundred American art teachers who willvisit London for the Congress after periods ofstudy in different parts of Europe. Years ago, in that charming volume of reminis-cences, Ottr River, Mr. G. D. Leslie, R.A.,commenting on the faulty representation of boatsin pictures, declared that in all the works that hadpassed before him when serving on the selectingcommittee of the Academy he had never seen apunt properly drawn. All boats, said Mr.Leslie, are extremely difficult to draw well.The same opinion was expressed by Mr. BertramPriestman in his lecture on Boats, given lastmonth before the students of the New School ofLandscapti Painting, 13 Edwardes Square, Ken-sington. Mr. Priestman thinks that, except thehuman figure, there is nothing harder to draw thanthe boat, and in his demonstration he indicatedthe chief things in its delineation that should be -57
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PENCIL DRAWING BY ALFRED FRANCE (The New Art School, EarTs Couit) Art School Notes aimed at or avoided. The lecturer made hispoints clear by rapid sketches in charcoal, in whichhe suggested the general principles of the structureof the boat and the ship, and of the arrangementof the sails and rigging. The treatment of sailsand masts in a picture was further explained duringthe progress of a sketch in oil of a sailing ship inharbour, executed in the presence of the audience.Mr. Priestman explained in the simplest fashionas he went along why and how everything wasdone, and by the time he had finished the oilsketch there was no one in the studio who hadnot learnt something new about colour and exe-cution as well as of the drawing of boats. Mr.Priestmans address was one of nine demonstra-tions at the New School of Landscape Painting,in which the treatment of skies, water, foliage andbuildings was explained and illustrated withpalette and brush. The course of lectures hasbeen an admirable p

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