Evening star., 1927-09-11
CDRCORAN TO ADD
SCULPTURE CLASS
New School Will Be Started
at Art Institution
This Year.

Painters and craftsmen. laboring
before easels with brush and charcoal
in their quest for artistic perfection.
is a story dating from 1875 with the
Corcoran School of Art. but student
sculptors. cutting. slashing and mould
ing piles of soggy clay mounted on
chest high modelling stands, Is new
chapter for Corcoran's diary which
will be begun with the season first
command of Pose, October ;.
Already maintaining Washington :
finest academic instruction in the fine
Rrts. with its antique, life. portrait.
sill life and composition classes. uu-
der the general direction of Richard
S Merryman, principal Corcoran.
through its new class in sculpture. be-
comes the most complete art school
In the District Of Columbia and al the
same time enters the field of the fore
most schools of the country.
Carl Nose, student of dorado Taft
ut the Art Institute of Chicago; Albin
Pclasek at the Art Students League
OF New York. and Leo Lentelli have
been added to the faculty as instruc-
tors in sculpture.
Program for Students.
In addition to Mr.. Nose. the
management of the school hopes To
brinc Mr.. Taft himself to Washington
for frequent criticism of the students
work. As in the painting and draw
ire classes at Corcolau, students en-
tering the sculpture class will he re-
uili, ed to model first from the
antique. Then. when they have at
tanned sufficient proficiency IN th@r
art, they will be placed in the iife
class where the living models are
used. -
All classes at Corcoran VIII be
oCened October ), at am. students
of the antique will be permitted TO
work until o'clock each afternoon
from Monday TO Friday. while the
classes in which living models are
used-life, portrait and sculpture-are
in session only from clock 10 noon
on the school days. Evening sessions
in all classes VIII he he'd from
O clock until 10 O'Clock.
Assisting Mr. Merryman, who is
instructor in the life and portrait
classes. are Burtis Baker, vice princi-
nal and life class instructor: Mrs.
Nathilde NJ Leisenring and Eugene
Weisz, instructors in the antique: Mrs
I.eisenring teaches also in the still-'lfe
class.
In addition to the actual art classes
adequate instruction in artistic anat-
onv is provided i'm series OF lectures
in the Corcoran school Auditorium by
DIR. George B. Jenkins. NJ ID. All
students of the school are eligible for
this course and it is compulsory for
members of the life classes.
Corcoran's previous expansion TO IT'S
curriculum was the institution of tn.
"cornposition" class. Students OF the
school prepare drawings or PAINTINGS
on assignment and they are criticised
for what the layman knows as make
up or picture quality as we'll as
the more subtle ard technical qualities
which artists demand.
Registry Opens September e6.
Miss Agnes Mayo. secretary of the
school, will be in the office on the
New York avenue side of the Corcoran
Gallery of Art. Monday. September
c6. tn register students. The average
enrolment of the institution during re-
cent years has9bseh $50. but it is llkelV !
that this nunlbar will be increased by /
the addition of the new class.
Unlike other art schools of the /
country. no tuition is charged the !
students of Corcoran. w. w. Cor
coran, founder of the art gallery
which today bears his name, was in
deep sympathy with beginners in the
field of art and in the provisions
which accompanied his gift of his col
lection and the gallery, tuition
charges are specifically forbidden A
small annual fee is charged each stu
dent. however. when he enters any
one or several of the schools classes.