Course for Sculpture and Modelling at Gray's School of Art, 1910

End Date: 1910

Type: Art school course

Description: Diploma course focusing on copying from classical casts, such as studies from Michael Angelo's David and other antique statues. Final year, busts were modelled in the round from life. Students were also offered more vocational courses taught as an elective of the Design (Crafts) course, e.g. repousse or beaten metal work, leather work, wood carving, bronze casting, jewellery, etc.

For first two years syllabus includes: modelling of plant form, modelling details from the antique, casting, modelling from arranged drapery.

Citing this record

'Course for Sculpture and Modelling at Gray\'s School of Art, 1910', 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_1245162577, accessed 29 May 2023]