That Art Schools should be Abolished (Art Workers Guild), 1926

End Date: 18 June 1926

Type: Discussion

Description: P. Gossop moved the notion, seconded by C. R. Ashbee; W. Bayes, seconded by L. Walker, led the opposition. Post-interval, and introduced the subject, A. E. Taylor, F. E. Jackson, G. Bayes, R. Hallward, A. S. Hartrick and H. T. Smith spoke (AWG annual report, 1926, p. 6).

Policy: 'Meetings are held fortnightly, when papers are read and their subjects illustrated as fully as possible. Visitors must be introduced by a member' (Year's Art, 1913, pp. 169-70).

Citing this record

'That Art Schools should be Abolished (Art Workers Guild), 1926', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/event.php?id=msib2_1219072039, accessed 24 Mar 2023]