Leeds College of Art

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Address 22 East Parade Leeds | View on map

Address Cookridge Street Leeds | View on map
1903
The new purpose built art school on this site was constructed between 1901-3 and was designed by the architect William Henry Bidlake (1861-1938) who had previously designed an art school in Moseley.

Exhibitions, Courses, Meetings and other Events

Organized Leeds College of Art, 1846-1946 Centenary Exhibition, City Art Gallery, 1946

Associated People

Assistant teachers included P.S. Wadsworth
Assistant in the School of Sculpture and Pottery at the City of Leeds College of Art

Assistant teachers included David Hardy
1937 (Circa) - 1951 (Circa)
Evening Assistant (Stone Carving and Letter Cutting) with the School of Sculpture and Modelling (later the School of Sculpture and Pottery) at Leeds College of Art

Assistant teachers included G.B. Dunn
1947 (Circa) - 1951 (Circa)
Assistant (Modelling and Carving) in the School of Sculpture and Pottery at the City of Leeds College of Art

Assistant teachers included G. Ossitt
1949 (Circa) - 1951 (Circa)
Studio Assistant in the School of Sculpture and Pottery at Leeds College of Art

Assistant teachers of modeling included C. Boston
1948 (Circa)
Studio Assistant in the School of Sculpture and Pottery

Assistant teachers of modeling included F. Coates
1948 (Circa)
Assistant in the School of Sculpture and Pottery

Assistant teachers of modeling included Eric J. Elmes
1950 (Circa) - 1951 (Circa)
In the School of Sculpture and Pottery

Assistant teachers of sculpture included G. H. Mason
1949 (Circa)
Assistant in the School of Sculpture and Pottery

Assistant teachers of sculpture included Harry R. Phillips
1949 - 1951
The Head of Sculpture

Headmasters included Walter Smith
1860 (Circa) - 1861 (Circa)

Headmasters included Andrew Stevenson
1874 (Circa) - 1889
Dismissed after critical reports were received from a South Kensington inspector who noted 'it was desirable there should be more teaching of design in the school.' (Leeds Institute School of Art Sub-Committee Minutes, 19 November 1886 quoted in 'Behind the Mosaic' (2003) p. 18)

Headmasters included Haywood Rider
1889 - 1922

Heads of department included Charles Henry Broughton
1904
Duration of appointment unconfirmed but certainly still teaching in 1911

Heads of department included Walter Buckley Pearson
1905 - 1921
Head of the Drawing and Painting Department, where he taught Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth

Heads of department included Reginald Thomas Cotterill
1919 - 1927
Head of Sculpture and Modelling Department, lecturer on 'Modelling for Schools' in the Department for Training Art Teachers and lecturer in 'Drawing and Modelling for Bakery Students' in the Craft Department

Heads of department included T. H. Edwin Abbott
1923 (Circa) - 1947 (Circa)
Head of Metalwork Department, Special Craft Teacher in Repoussé, Jewellery and Silversmiths' Work and a lecturer on 'Pottery' in the Department for Training Art Teachers

Heads of department included H.E. Simpson
1923 (Circa) - 1937 (Circa)
Vice-Principal of School and Head of Department of Industrial Design and Craft, Leeds School of Art, Special Craft Teacher in Repoussé Jewellery and Silversmiths' Work and lecturer in the Department for Training Art Teachers

Heads of department included Loris Rey
December 1927 - 1934
Head of Sculpture and Modelling Department, regarded as a highly successful teacher who transformed the department

Heads of department included John Francis Kavanagh
November 1933 - January 1939
Head of School of Sculpture and Modelling, also Teacher of Stone and Marble Carving and Letter Cutting in the School of Industrial Design and Crafts

Heads of department included Harry R. Phillips
1951 (Circa)
Head of the School of Sculpture and Pottery from

Students included Frederick C. Robinson

Students included William H. Wilkinson

Students included Edward Caldwell Spruce
1891 (Circa) - 1893 (Circa)
Between 1891-3 he entered a number of modelling examinations, winning prizes in the National Competition and a free studentship from the school

Students included Hannah Hunt
1892 (Circa) - 1894 (Circa)
Student of Edward Caldwell Bruce

Students included Mabel Inez Laws
1892 (Circa) - 1894 (Circa)
Student of Edward Caldwell Bruce, possibly went on to teach c.1897-8

Students included Annie Dobson
1897 (Circa) - 1899 (Circa)

Students included Fred Paul
1897 (Circa)
Presume a student

Students included Walter Watson
1897 (Circa)
Presume a student but could have been a teacher, source is not clear

Students included Henry Walker
1897 (Circa)

Students included H.M. Saville
1898 (Circa)
Presume a student but could have been a teacher, source is not clear

Students included H.E. Simpson
1899 (Circa) - 1900
In 1899 he won a gold medal for his design for a decoration of a room, a bronze medal and an Owen Jones prize

Students included Herbert Addyman
1900 (Circa)

Students included Mabel Burras
1900 (Circa)

Students included Lavinia Brogden
1900 (Circa) - 1902 (Circa)

Students included Hiram Bearder
1900 (Circa)

Students included Ethel Cliff
1900 (Circa)

Students included Rose Fox
1900 (Circa)

Students included Susan Firth
1900 (Circa)

Students included E. Arthur Fullerton
1900 (Circa)

Students included M. M. Hankey
1900 (Circa)

Students included Jane M. Hall
1900 (Circa) - 1904 (Circa)

Students included Annie Hugill
1900 (Circa) - 1902 (Circa)

Students included Jessie Kilpin
1900 (Circa)

Students included W. S. Lavington
1900 (Circa)

Students included James Kendall
1900 (Circa)

Students included Ernest Poole
1900 (Circa)

Students included Myra Naylor
1900 (Circa)

Students included M. Hilliard Willson
1900 (Circa)

Students included Thomas Savage
1900 (Circa)

Students included Arthur Reginald Smithson
1900 (Circa)

Students included M. Kathleen Wilson
1900 (Circa)

Students included Frank Charles
1904 (Circa)

Students included Arthur Levitt
1904 (Circa)

Students included Silas Paul
1904 (Circa)

Students included Lawrence Preston
1904 (Circa)

Students included Isaac W. Taylor
1904 (Circa)

Students included Robert Walmsley
1904 (Circa)

Students included Christopher Ambler
1905 (Circa) - 1909 (Circa)

Students included Amy Boal
1907 (Circa) - 1910 (Circa)

Students included (Joseph) Hermon Cawthra
1907 - 1909
He was a West Riding Art (Craft) Scholar

Students included T. H. Edwin Abbott
1908 (Circa)

Students included Constance Norfolk
1908 (Circa)

Students included George Skilbeck
1910 (Circa)

Students included Henry Spencer Moore
1919 - 1921

Students included (Jocelyn) Barbara Hepworth
1920 - 1921

Students included Percy Metcalfe
1920 (Circa)

Students included Jocelyn Horner
1920 (Circa)

Students included Ethel Cotterill
1924 (Circa)
In 1924 she won the British Institute's Scholarship in Sculpture worth £150

Students included Eric Rogers
1927 (Circa)

Students included Thomas Allen
1933 (Circa)

Students included Doreen Findlay
1936 (Circa)

Teachers included Thomas W. Swindlehurst
1947 (Circa) - 1952 (Circa)
Assistant (Lettering) in the School of Sculpture and Pottery at Leeds College of Art

Teachers included Dorothy Sawyers
1948 (Circa) - 1952 (Circa)
Probably the Dorothy Sawyers (or Mrs E.G. Fuller) who was a teacher of drawing and painting, specialising in mural painting

Teachers included Jose M. Lewis
1949 (Circa) - 1950 (Circa)
Assistant (Modelling and Drawing) in the School of Sculpture and Pottery at Leeds College of Art

Teachers included A. J. Park
1951 (Circa) - 1952 (Circa)
Assistant in the School of Sculpture and Pottery

Teachers of modeling included Edward Caldwell Spruce
1891 (Circa) - 1893 (Circa)
Very possibly taught for longer than these three years, was also studying at Leeds around this time

Teachers of modeling included Ernest William Light
1901 (Circa)
Possibly also a student at the college

Teachers of modeling included Douglas Robertson Bisset
1939 (Circa) - 1946 (Circa)
Head of School of Sculpture and Modelling at the City of Leeds College of Art

Teachers of sculpture included Percy Brown
1946 (Circa) - 1950 (Circa)
Head of School of Sculpture and Pottery

Teachers of sculpture included Harold Joseph Cove
1951 (Circa)
Convenor of the School of Sculpture and Pottery at Leeds College of Art

Teachers of stone carving included R. Longbottom
1927 - 1932
Special Craft Teacher in Marble and Stone Carving and Letter Cutting at Leeds School of Art

Teachers of woodcarving included John Lawrance
1911 - 1926 (Circa)
Began teaching in about 1911 for a salary of £140 per annum. Between 1923 and 1926 he was working as a 'Special Craft Teacher in Wood, Marble and Stone Carving'

Teachers of woodcarving included Albert E. Warnes
1926 (Circa)
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Vice-chaired by (Mary Louisa) Hermione Unwin

Sources

Behind the Mosaic: one hundred years of art education
2003

Catalogue of the Arts & Crafts Exhibition 1900
1900
Cat. No. 4, p. 56

Catalogue of the Arts & Crafts Exhibition 1904
1904
Cat. Nos. 918, 923, 925, 938, 940, 943, 944, 970, 1027, 1029, pp. 55, 56, 60

Catalogue of the Leeds College of Art 1846-1946 Centenary Exhibition, 1946
November 1946

Catalogue of the Spring Exhibition, The City Art Gallery, Leeds 1897
1897
Cat. Nos. 779, 780, 781, 782, 786, 792, 805, 806, 819, 820, 824, 847

Catalogue of the Spring Exhibition, The City Art Gallery, Leeds 1898
1898
p. 70

Catalogue of the Spring Exhibition, The City Art Gallery, Leeds 1907
1907
Cat. No. 784, pp. 62, 67

Catalogue of the Spring Exhibition, The City Art Gallery, Leeds 1908
1908
Cat. Nos. 806, 820, 852, pp. 64, 67, 69, 71, 87

Catalogue of the Spring Exhibition, The City Art Gallery, Leeds 1910
1910
Cat. Nos. 700, 706, 709, 716, 736, pp. 58, 59, 60, 61

City of Leeds College of Art, Prospectus, 1932-3
September 1932

City of Leeds College of Art, Prospectus, 1933-4
1933 (Presumed)

City of Leeds College of Art, Prospectus, 1935-6
1935 (Presumed)

City of Leeds College of Art, Prospectus, 1936-7
1936 (Presumed)

City of Leeds College of Art, Prospectus, 1937-8
1937 (Presumed)

City of Leeds College of Art, Prospectus, 1938-9
1938 (Presumed)

City of Leeds College of Art, Prospectus, 1941-2
1941 (Presumed)

City of Leeds College of Art, Prospectus, 1942-3
1942 (Presumed)

City of Leeds College of Art, Prospectus, 1944-5
1944 (Presumed)

City of Leeds College of Art, Prospectus, 1945-6
1945 (Presumed)

City of Leeds College of Art, Prospectus, 1946-7
1946 (Presumed)

City of Leeds College of Art, Prospectus, 1947-8
1947

City of Leeds College of Art, Prospectus, 1948-9
1948

City of Leeds College of Art, Prospectus, 1949-50
1949

City of Leeds College of Art, Prospectus, 1950-1
1950

City of Leeds College of Art, Prospectus, 1951-2
1951

Kelly's Directory of Leeds and Neighbourhood, 1881
1881
p. 415

Kelly's Directory of Leeds, 1901
1901
p. 962

Kelly's Directory of Leeds, 1921
1921 (Presumed)
p. 983

Leeds College of Art, Prospectus, 1927-8
August 1927

Leeds College of Art, Prospectus, 1928-9
August 1928

Leeds College of Art, Prospectus, 1929-30
August 1929

Leeds College of Art, Prospectus, 1930-1
August 1930

Leeds School of Art, Prospectus, 1923-4
August 1923

Leeds School of Art, Prospectus, 1924-5
August 1924

Leeds School of Art, Prospectus, 1925-6
August 1925

Leeds School of Art, Prospectus, 1926-7
August 1926

White's Directory and Topography of the Boroughs of Leeds and Bradford, 1861
1861
p. 260