SCHOOL OF ART.

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 296, 14 December 1931, Page 11

SCHOOL OF ART.

Exhibition of Work by Pupils. ANNUAL PRIZE GIVING. Congratulations on the success of the year’s work were tendered by all speakers at the annual prize-giving and exhibition of work of the Canterbury College School of Art on Saturday evening, and afterwards the many friends and relatives of the students who attended had an opportunity of judging for themselves in what measure it was merited. Even to them the quality of the work must have come as a surprise. It was a splendid exhibition in many ways, and in some it was outstanding. In the various classrooms were grouped the various sections of the students’ work, and for several hours on Saturday they were packed with an eager crowd of visitors. All classes of art were represented, and even the work of the more elementary students showed a degree of understanding, originality and treatment that was amazing. Some of the colour work, splendidly conceived and executed, and the drawings from life were well done. It was in the poster and craft sections, though, that the best work was displayed. The poster section was the best exhibited for some years, and included some original and boldly carried out ideas. Directors' Remarks. The director congratulated the students and instructors on the year’s work. Considered generally, he said, all sections of the school were working well. The work of the students had developed in many ways, and he considered that in one channel it had made considerable progress. That was in the study of the history of painting, sculpture, art craft and Heraldry. The Hon G. J. Smith congratulated the prize-winners, particularly Miss Vera Pollard, the first girl to win the New Zealand Institute of Architects’ prize. Prize List. The prize list was as follows: SCHOLARSHIPS. £25 Pure Art—Betty Wishart. Day Applied Art—Marjorie Ruddle. Modelling (day)—Enga Washbourn. Intermediate—Miles Butterick. Life (evening)—Frederick Shewell. Antique (evening)—Myrtle Anderson. Modelling (evening)—James Andrews. Applied Art (evening)—Dorothy Roberts.

Architecture—Vera Pollard. Signwriting—John Scott. SPECIAL PRIZES. The Rosa Sawtell Prize—Betty Wishart. Airs Lonßdale*’s prize for junior life—Doris Tutill. J. Ballantyna and Co.'s prize for needlework—Rona West'on. J. Ballantiyne and Co.’s prize for needlework—Doris Tutill. Beath, and Co.’s prize for needlework—Monica Templeman. John Henry Seager'a prize for needlework—Kathleen Davis. John Henry Feager’s second prize for needlework—Gwen Butterfield. J. W. Gibb's prize for landscape—-Kathleen White., Whitcombe and Tombs’s prize for com* mercial drawing—Madge Mathewss Whitcombe and Tombs’s prize for com* mercial drawing—Jessie Moorfleld. Chandler and Co.’s prize for group posters—Winton Bristow. L. M. Isitt and Co.’s prize for group posters—Joan Skip* page. Simpson and Williams’s prize for pen and ink drawing—Myrtle Anderson. The New Zealand Institute of Architects (Christchurch branch) —Vera Pollard 1, Charles Cornish 2. W. H. Trengrove’s special prize—Samuel Cook I, Mervyn. Vogel 2, Eric King 3, Colin Wilson (junior). Staff prizes: For painted heads— Kathleen White. For advanced still life—John Knight. Special award for carving (evening class)—John W. Sharp. For best first year craft student —Gladys Collison. CLASS PRIZES. Life (time study)—Alfred Cook. An* tlque (advanced day)—John KnightAntique (preliminary day)—lsabel Boon. Antique (advanced evening)—Myrtle Anderson. Antique (preliminary evening) —Athol Wislang. Landscape (senior) —Enga Washburn. Still life (advanced day)—Miles Butterick. Modelling (advanced day)—May Bradley. Modelling (intermediate day)—Janet Threlkeld. Modelling (intermediate evening)—Ernest W. Rich. Modelling (elementary evening)—Ray F. Nelson. Modelling (extra elementary evening)—Janet Furze. Craft (advanced day)—Ngarita Partridge. Craft (intermediate day)—• Monica Templeman. Craft (advanced evening)—George Nlcholls. Craft (intermediate evening)—Grace Bray. Lino* cuts (intermediate C)—Norman Fletcher. Lino-cuts (interraediiate girls)—* Betty M'Clymont. Pictorial design intermediate Girls) —Madge Mathews. Pictorial design (intermediate girls—Jessie Palk. Landscape (preliminary)— Doris Tutill. Landscape (preliminary—lrene Vial. Landscape (Junior C) —Lawrence Anderson. Dressmaking Woolley. Best-kept note-book—June M’Donald. CLASS GROUP PRIZES. Intermediate A and B—lrene Vial 1, Maude .Tackett 2, Marjorie Sykes 3, Janet Hoy 4. Intermediate D—lsabel Boon 1, Marion Strang 2, Mena Fames 3, Phyllis Morris 4. Highest average marks— Beryl Twigg. Intermediate C Norman Fletcher. Highest‘ average—Colin Cameron. Junior A—Joyce M’Clea 1, Marjorie Nisbet 2, Clarice Cassels and Eileen Nor* rish equal 3, Jessie Franklin 5. Junior B—Lillia Adams 1, Mavis Bartley 2, Joan Clement 3, Edna Townsend 4. Junior D—Kathleen Lilley I, Peggy Sutton 2. Junior 3—Berkley Sloane and Bernard Winfield equal 1, Raymond Pockson 3, Lawrence Anderson 4. Saturday Morning Classes.—Staff prize for youthful promise—Master Rarry Wilkie. Illustration—Sylvia Ragg. Still life—Owen Lee.