Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-05
FINE ARTS DIVISION
OF c. ". EXPANDS
Better Quarters and 10 Per
Cent Increase in Enroll
ment Noted.

Provided with more spacious anc
!: newly equipped quarters, and offering
graduate work for the first time, the
division of fine arts of George Wash
Ington University has entered upon the
third year of its existence with 10 pei
cent increase in enrolment.
Formerly the department of architec-
ture of the School of Engineering, the
division was made a separate academic
unit of the university in 1928, and last
year was placed under the direction OF
Prof. Norris I. Crandall. The division
is composed of two departments, the
department of architecture, in which
courses leading to the degree OF bachelor
of architecture are given, and the de-
partment of graphic art, under which
are offered courses leading to the degree
Of bachelor Of arts with major in art.
The entire fourth floor of Lisner Hall
has been turned over to the division this
year. Here are located lecture rooms,
two rooms for watercolor classes, and
a sketch room accommodating so easels
and As drawing desks.
Sketch Room Equipped.
The sketch room has been equipped
with a lighting system designed under
the direction of Prof. Crandau and
Eugen Weisz of the department of
graphic arts, and representing the best
that is obtainabls in artificial lighting.
The casts for antique. are lighted by
individual spotlights, while general light
for the students work, both here and
in the watar-color and life classes, is
supplied through indirect lighting.
There are special fixtures for lighting
the model platform in the life class.
In the water color rooms are exhibit
ton panels where the students work will
be constantly on view and where faculty
judgments will take place once month
The determining of student grades by a
committee of the entire faculty acting
as jury, will insure unbiased Judgment.
The faculty of the graphic arts de-
partment has been augmented through
the appointment of Ethel Bray, as
lecturer in graphic art, and Albert
Nelson Davis associate in graphic art.
Course in Appreciation.
Miss Bray, who is director of art in
the Washington public schools, is CIV
ing a course in art appreciation, de-
signed to instruct the artist and the
teacher of art in the fundamental
as to supply a general cultural knowl-
edge for the psrson not following art
as a vocation.
Mr.. Davis has charge of the elemen-
tary work in antique. He received his
training at the Corcoran School Of Art,
where he was awarded a number OF
prizes, including, last year, first prize in
the classes in painting from life.
Mr.. Welsz, who is giving the work In
water-color and sketching, will conduct
his classes out of doors so far as the
weather permits, utilizing the many
beautiful spots in and around Wash
tngton.
In the department Of architecture,
Douglas G. w. McRae has been added
to the teaching staff. Mr. McRae Is an
honor graduate of the School of Archi-
lecture of the University Of Toronto,
where he won the Darling and Pearson
prize in design and the Architectural
Guild bronze medal. Mr.. McRae has
spent some time in study abroad, and
has had experience both in teaching
He has successfully completed the ex-
aminations of the Royal Institute Of
British Architects.
Curriculum Is Enlarged.
A new course in architectural render
ing is being given this year under the
direction of Dopald Kline, instructor III
architecture.
The curriculum of the division has
work in architecture and graphic art.
To receive the degree of master of hre
arts, the candidate must complete ~
semester hours of graduate work and
must present a thesis which may be
either written or in the form of de-
sign-if in architecture, a study of an
important building development worked
out IN complete architectural and
structural detail; if in graphic art,
large canvas. The candidate for the
masters degree must also pass an oral
examination on his thesis and major
field work.
One of the divisions first graduate
students is now engaged in the eXecu-
ton of a mural for presentation as his
thesis, which is of interest in view OF
the approaching bicentennial celebra-
ton.
Depicts City Planning.
The mural. which is being painted by
Garnet w. Jex under the direction OF
Burtis Baker of the faculty, will depict
the laying out of the City Of Washing
ton by Pierre LEnfant. The two prin-
cipal figures in the composition are
George Washington on horseback and
L'Enfant displaying to the first Presi-
dent his plans for the city. In the
picture also appear the three District
Commissioners OF the perlOd-1 noIndS
johnson, former Governor Of Maryland;
Daniel Carroll of Rock Greek and
David Stuart, WaShington'S personal
physician. L'Enfant's principal assist
ant, Ellicott, also is a prominent figure
in the canvas.
Mr.. Jex has undertaken the most
careful research to insure historic like
nesses of the personalities involved. In
the case of LEnfant, the search has
carried him to France and has enlisted
the aid of Ambassador Claudel, former
Ambassador Jusserand. the minister OF
foreign affairs, the minister OF public
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