The Washington times., 1923-03-11

Ruth Sutphen. principal, who
formerly studied with Mucha and
is graduate Of the Parsons
School In New York: John Donn
Allen. also from the Parsons
School and Hawthorne's School
at Provincetown; Charles Dunn.
head of the art department OF
The Nations Business, the OF.
fetal magazine Of the Chamber
of Commerce; Miss Cornelia
Stuard, engaged in the Govern.
nent service as a. designer and
draughtsman; Harry r. Cunning
ham. instructor in architecture
and drafting; Miss Edna Thacker,
a Washington girl and former
student Of the school; Miss
Juliette I. Milliken, Miss Tnez
Hogan, who is now In Europe
studying art: Miss Irma Paul, a
former student teacher in the
life class; John r. Elmore, and
Louis L. Long, student teacher.
MATERIAL IS RICH.
It is the directors plan to en-
courage promising students to
study in other schools and cities,
and abroad, afterward returning
to act as assistants and teachers
in the NATIONAL School OF Fine and
Applied Art.
He has rich material from
which to select. Every State in
the Union is represented in the
student body, and the Philippines
and foreign countries are also in
cluded. Men from the Beaux
Arts in Paris have come TO the
school. besides those from nearly
every art school IN America. stu.
dents from the public schools
come on Saturdays.
Courses covering three years
areF offered. Many pupils have
progressed far in the fine arts,
but find themselves lost in know
ing how to- apply their training
before studying here.
The courses Of instruction in
clude spectrum color as II relates
to light and it's reproduction in
pigments: interior decoration,
with historic periods. furniture
construction. color, design. and
perspective: costume. design. for
stage and conservative dress, APP
piled to advertising, with life
drawing; commercial illustrative
advertising in a variety of themes:
textile design for wallpaper and
textiles; drawing and painting,
with the nude and draped models.
besides still life composition:
sketch class, for quick sketching
from models; and Saturday chill.
dren's class, from 9 to II q. m.
BEAUTY Is EVERYWHERE.
Art is simply the way of doing
things beautifully claims Mr..
Mahony. Beauty lie everywhere
present. Its standards vary from
time to time. and from age to
age. but there is no people, CIV
ilized or uncivi1ized, without its
standard of beauty. The sense Of
beauty is a means of happiness"
Are the students making good
in after work? Yes, is the en-
phatic answer. In every conpe-
tition, throughout the country,
students from the National School
Of Fine and Applied Art have
been successful.
A recent display of posters
shown at the Arts Club in the
competition OF the Instructive
Visiting Nurses Society empha-
sized this fact, as four Of the six
prizes were awarded to members
Of Mahony's school, and two OF
the honorable mentions also went
to them. Charles Dunn, q for
mer student, who IL now on the
staff, won the competition for
war savings stamp design for the
whole United States, including
schools. private and public.
SCHOOL FILLS NEED.
Thirty-six boys in the United
States camouflage division during
the war were furnished by this
school, and Of course many Of
the girls went as nurses or In
other needed capacities.
The school has succeeded, not
because 1t was doomed In the pa
pers, for Felix Mahony has never
sought line of publicity. but be
cause it fills an important need
Of the rising generation-beauty
as a practical asset applied to
everyday living. Ralph Waldo
Emerson, the Yankee Plato.
sensed this more than fifty years
ago, when he wrote his Essay
on Art" which deserves another
reading IL you haven't seen 1t
lately: Beauty must come back
10 the useful arts. and the dis.
tinction between the fine and the
useful arts be forgotten"
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