Westminster School of Art
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The Westminster School of Art was an art school
in Westminster
, London
. It was located at 18 Tufton Street, Deans Yard, Westminster, and was part of the old Architectural Museum.
H. M. Bateman described it in 1903 as
Art school
Art school is a general term for any educational institution with a primary focus on the visual arts, especially illustration, painting, photography, sculpture, and graphic design. The term applies to institutions with elementary, secondary, post-secondary or undergraduate, or graduate or...
in Westminster
Westminster
Westminster is an area of central London, within the City of Westminster, England. It lies on the north bank of the River Thames, southwest of the City of London and southwest of Charing Cross...
, London
London
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. It was located at 18 Tufton Street, Deans Yard, Westminster, and was part of the old Architectural Museum.
H. M. Bateman described it in 1903 as
"... arranged on four floors with galleries running round a big square courtyard, the whole being covered over with a big glass roof. Off the galleries were the various rooms which made up the school, the galleries themselves being filled with specimens of architecture which gave the whole place the air of a museum, which of course it was."
Artists
The following were associated with the school:- Clare AtwoodClare AtwoodClare 'Tony' Atwood was a British painter of portraits, still life, landscapes, interiors and decorative flower subjects...
- H. M. BatemanH. M. BatemanHenry Mayo Bateman was a British humorous artist and cartoonist.H. M. Bateman was noted for his "The Man Who..." series of cartoons, featuring comically exaggerated reactions to minor and usually upper-class social gaffes, such as "The Man Who Lit His Cigar Before the Loyal Toast", "The Man Who...
- Robert Polhill Bevan
- David BombergDavid BombergDavid Garshen Bomberg was an English painter, and one of the Whitechapel Boys.Bomberg was one of the most audacious of the exceptional generation of artists who studied at the Slade School of Art under Henry Tonks, and which included Mark Gertler, Stanley Spencer, C.R.W. Nevinson and Dora Carrington...
- Professor Fred Brown
- Stella BowenStella BowenEsther Gwendolyn "Stella" Bowen was an Australian artist, born in North Adelaide in the southern part of the country. As a young girl, Bowen enjoyed drawing and convinced her mother to allow her to study with Margaret Preston...
- Walter Bayes
- Alfred Brumwell ThomasAlfred Brumwell ThomasSir Alfred Brumwell Thomas was an architect born in Virginia Water, Surrey who trained at Westminster School of Art and became an exponent of the Baroque Revival, a style of architecture prevalent for public buildings in the early years of the 20th century.In 1906, he was made a fellow of the...
- Emily CarrEmily CarrEmily Carr was a Canadian artist and writer heavily inspired by the indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast. One of the first painters in Canada to adopt a post-impressionist painting style, Carr did not receive widespread recognition for her work until later in her life...
- John CraxtonJohn CraxtonJohn Leith Craxton, RA, was an English painter. He was sometimes called a neo-Romantic artist but he preferred to be known as a "kind of Arcadian".-Career:...
- Mark Gertler (artist)
- Sylvia GosseSylvia GosseSylvia Gosse , born Laura Sylvia Gosse, was the daughter of English novelist Sir Edmund Gosse, and was well known as a painter and printmaker. Although some of her portraits are held by the National Portrait Gallery, she was better known for her streetscapes and interiors. She was a student of...
- Duncan GrantDuncan GrantDuncan James Corrowr Grant was a British painter and designer of textiles, potterty and theatre sets and costumes...
- Richard HamiltonRichard Hamilton (artist)Richard William Hamilton, CH was a British painter and collage artist. His 1956 collage, Just what is it that makes today's homes so different, so appealing?, produced for the This Is Tomorrow exhibition of the Independent Group in London, is considered by critics and historians to be one of the...
- David JonesDavid Jones (poet)David Jones CH was both a painter and one of the first generation British modernist poets. As a painter he worked chiefly in watercolor, painting portraits and animal, landscape, legendary and religious subjects. He was also a wood-engraver and designer of inscriptions. As a writer he was...
- John LukeJohn Luke (artist)John Luke was an Irish artist. He was born in Belfast at 4 Lewis Street. The fifth of seven sons and one daughter of James Luke and his wife Sarah, originally from Ahoghill. He attended the Hillman Street National School and in 1920 went to work at the York Street Flax Spinning Company...
- Dugald Sutherland MacCollDugald Sutherland MacCollDugald Sutherland MacColl was a Scottish watercolour painter, art critic, lecturer and writer. He was keeper of the Tate gallery for five years.- Life :...
- Rose MeadRose MeadRose Mead was a British born portrait painter who exhibited at the Royal Academy summer exhibition and was a colleague of Augustus John...
- Bernard MeninskyBernard MeninskyBernard Meninsky was a figurative artist, painter of figures and landscape in oils, watercolour and gouache, draughtsman and teacher. He was born in Karotopin now in the Ukraine but raised in Liverpool where he attended the Liverpool School of Art in 1906 after initially attending evening classes...
- John MennieJohn MennieJohn George Mennie, A.R.M.S. D.A.. ARMS., was a Scottish artist who came to public attention in 2011 for his many contemporaneous drawings of his life as a prisoner of war during the Japanese occupation of Singapore and Thailand in World War II...
- Mervyn PeakeMervyn PeakeMervyn Laurence Peake was an English writer, artist, poet and illustrator. He is best known for what are usually referred to as the Gormenghast books. They are sometimes compared to the work of his older contemporary J. R. R...
- Norman Mills PriceNorman Mills PriceNorman Mills Price was an American illustrator whose work reflected his interest in historical subjects.Born in Brampton, Ontario, Canada, he studied at the Ontario School of Art, then in London at the Westminster School of Art and the Goldsmith’s Institute...
- Alfred William RichAlfred William RichAlfred William Rich , was an English watercolourist, teacher and author.-Life and work:Rich was born between Scaynes Hill and Lindfield in Sussex...
- Eric SchilskyEric SchilskyEric Schilsky, RA, was a sculptor.-Résumé:*Sculptor and lecturer, Westminster School of Art and subsequently the Edinburgh College of Art ....
- Walter SickertWalter SickertWalter Richard Sickert , born in Munich, Germany, was a painter who was a member of the Camden Town Group in London. He was an important influence on distinctively British styles of avant-garde art in the 20th century....
- Dame Ethel WalkerEthel WalkerDame Ethel Walker, DBE was a British painter of portraits, flower-pieces, sea-pieces and decorative compositions. Her work shows the influence of Impressionism, Puvis de Chavannes, Gauguin and Asian art.- Early life :...
- Allan Walton
- Clifford WebbClifford WebbClifford Webb was an English artist, illustrator and author: RBA 1936, RE 1948.He was apprenticed as a lithographer, served in the British Army in World War I and then studied at the Westminster School of Art. Fought in Mons, Gallipoli and Mesopotamina. Wounded four times and mentioned in...
- Bryan Winter