ART INSTRUCTOR

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 141, 18 December 1928, Page 10

ART INSTRUCTOR

A NOTABLE APPOINTEE . Prom a large number of applicants, Mr. Christopher Perkins was selected by the Wellington Technical College Board of Governors last evening i!or the position o£ life drawing and painting master at the Hutt School. Mr. Perkins, who is 37 years of age, is a draughtsman and painter of wide experience, who, for some years, has held one-man exhibitions in London, and has shown, work at the more important exhibitions in England. Receiving his early art training at the Slade School of Art, London, Mr. Perkins gained further experience at the British Academy, Rome, and Arena Goldoni, Florence. He has had some years of experience as an art master in English Schools, and among his more recent private work is a series of portraits of eminent living composers. | Mr. Perkins's application was strong|ly supported by Professor Henry Tonks, Director of the Slade School of Art; Professor William Rothenstein, Director of the Royal College of Art; Dr. Russell, the Keeper of the Royal Academy; Professor Hind, Assistanj-Kecper of Prints at the British Museum, -and Mr. Roger Fry. It is expected that he will leave England early in the New Year, accompanied by Mrs. -Perkins and his threo; children. ■ '"