Course for Sculpture at Gray's School of Art, 1921-1922

End Date: 1921

Type: Art school course

Description: Focus for this year's Diploma Course was made chiefly with the view to providing apprentices and journeymen belonging to the granite industry with facilities for 'acquiring such a knowledge of and skill in Drawing, Modelling, Lettering, and Design' which would benefit them in employment within the industry. 'In the re-organisation now carried into practice, the dept of Sculpture is associated with the dept of Architecture, in the technical school with the granite industry.'

Specialised study in final year included:
The application of human and animal forms to architectural decoration and crafts.
The study of methods regarding materials - bronze, freestone, marbel, granite, wood, etc. carving.
Use of pointing instrument.
Moulding and casting in plaster.

Citing this record

'Course for Sculpture at Gray\'s School of Art, 1921-1922', 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=msib6_1245157951, accessed 30 May 2023]