Sculpture Classes, National College of Art, Dublin, October 1942
Start Date: October 1942
Type: Art school class
Description: Morning Classes: 40; Evening Classes: 33 (enrolment to date).
Attendance for October 1942, as sent by De Burca to Chief Inspector, looking for an Assistant to the Professor of Sculpture:
7 October: 2 students (am), 0 students (pm);
9 October: 15 (am), 12 (pm);
12 October: 9 (am), 19 (pm);
14 October: 11 (am), 16 (pm);
16 October: 25 (am), 12 (pm);
19 October: 15 (am), 22 (pm);
21 October: 11 (am), 18 (pm);
23 October: 22 (am), 11 (pm);
26 October: 13 (am), 25 (pm);
28 October: 23 (am), 14 (pm).
Teachers
Teachers included Laurence Campbell
As mentioned in NCAD Reports and Minutes File, file no. 29. Letter from Director M. De Burca to the Chief Inspector [of the Ed. Dept?]. Mr Campbell was Acting Professor [of sculpture] from October 1939 and has been reappointed for each session since then (letter dated 5 Nov 1942), seeking appointment of an Assistant, as owing to the increasing numbers studying sculpture, afternoon classes also need to be given, in addition to Campbell's classes 3 mornings per week.
Citing this record
'Sculpture Classes, National College of Art, Dublin, October 1942', 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=msib3_1216908289, accessed 30 Sep 2023]
