ART STUDENTS IN ENGLAND.

Auckland Star, Volume LII, Issue 71, 29 March 1921, Page 8

ART STUDENTS IN ENGLAND.

' XEW ZEAIiANiryS GOOD WORK. (From Our Own Correspondent.) 'LOXiDOX, February 8. The blue riband of the art world in • tie Old Country is thelßome Scholarship, for which competition is perhaps keener . than ever it has been, for certainly war has na t dried up the founta : n« of ! creative and pictorial art. An exhibition of the works—painting-, sculpture, architecture, and engraving--- sent up, or rather a selected few deemed worth;? appearing in what the Scots term the short leet, are now on view at Burling ton House the while the decision is being made ac to who shall bear off the prize. the sought for Rome Scholarship. In architecture there are only seven men selected for exhibition, and of these actually three are New Zealanders, surely no little feather in the cap of our Dominion. The three selected for the final adjudication are Mr. Eric R.Arthur (U#erpol University), (Mr. E. W. Armstrong, and Air. J. H. White (Arehitec tural Association Atelier). The subject of the designs this year is a national tanthcon surrounded by a Jake and approached by a cause-way. In the painting section there is a great variety of style, and the selected four come from different .studios. wherca fl in other days the Slade .School had more or less of a monopoly. Among the four ■ candidates for adjudication in sculpture there is—another sign of the times—a lady, Miss A. B. Johnston of the .Slade School.