Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-06-26
EDUCATIONAL DEPARTMENT.
PROF. JOHN p. GASs, EDITOR
school of Art and Design
Washington University.
From the st. Louis Republican.

From the st. Louis Republican.
The school of Art and Design is
intended to combine the useful with
the ornamental, and the preliminary
steps taken differ in no respect from
those taken to gain excellence in
pure art. The course of study is the
result OF personal examinations in
the various schools of art, schools of
design and industrial art schools of
England and France, as well as those
of America. A person pursuing such
curse will be well fitted for an
architect, Il teacher, or be enabled to
enter upon a thorough course of art
study as q profession. There is work
enough laid out in the course to keep
a student eve years working from
one to two hours a day, but it is
hardly.expected that any n student
will undertake all this. 1t only
shows the completeness and thor
oughness of the department.
There are now on exhibition over
800 exercises, all the work of stu
dents who have come into the school
at various times during the last eigh.
teen months, and who began with
the rudiments. When the short pc
riod of instruction and training are
taken into the account, many of these
exercises are really wonderful. There
are numerous samples from every
stage, from the simplest linear draw
ing by the aid of instruments to paint
ing and Iree-handed technical and
miscellaneous studies. 1t may not
be as imposing q gallery as some,
but it is exceedingly interesting and
full OF surprises to those who know
that the teaching of art in St. Louis
is but in its early infancy. Here at
a glance you see the broad and solid
foundation for a glorious future, not
only for st. Louis, but for the whole
continent and the whole world. 1t
is but the budding promise of what
the oldes-countries have long exclu-
sively enjoyed, to the envy of tie
more vigorous people of the United
States. OF course the efforts made
by the students at painting and draw
ing directly from lite and still sub
jects excite the most interest, for
here there is expected to be found
the revelation of genius in its highest
and noblest development, as well as
the practical result of the teachers
work. In making sketches from ma ;
tural scenery, the pupils are allox we'd |
to go out, and make their w selec-
ton of subjects and do their work
without the aid of 4 teacher. When {
they have got q piece ready they
bring 1t into the school and there {
have it criticised. 8
Some Of these bits of painting are
really excellent and betray at once /
more than ordinary ability. Among Il
may be mentioned n deck-hand
Dr. steamboat roustabout, painted 4
rom life by j. II. Fry. The color
ng is good, the figure is well drawn,
the general expression admira- is
Die. This was done by a youth who
las been studying only eighteen c,
months. Jas. Barnsby has a picture n
# a German housemaid that is very G.
and Chas. H. Hallowell has a
imilar piece Of unqucstioned excel d
The head of Il Turk, q CHAR ta
drawing, by Miss Lizzie Sylves- W
er, is remarkably well done, as is d
Iso a head cf Ajax by the same tai ia
nted young lady. An autumn Il
letch by young HaIlowcll would do
to an artist Of much greater III
and MI. Tom TUun. has fO
still life study which is quite sur. AZ
for its freshness. Miss Lucy m
pillman has II piece, in oil, rcpre- ri.
an owl, some old books and m
bunch OF flowers, taken from the eG
Ilngs as they were and done most
imirably for a beginner. ia
Many of the charcoal sketches of to
assic forms and heads as well as
lose from living models were made ey
an hours time and show wonder to
il aptness. 1t would be impossible 81,
the space of n short account such
this must be to give Il fair concep- st,
On OF the progress made by the pu-
Is. There are hundreds Of fine dc
'ecimens Of wood carving, archi- 10
drawings, original designs yc
I'd mechanical drawings. The m,
.'ashington University School of
TT and Design is a great institution wi
I'd marks the progress being made ch
the work of educating the young.
Prof. Halsey G. Ives, who has nc
Of the School of Art and De- br
gn, is doing a work that will live in q,
e generations to come. =