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The St John's Wood Art School ( a.k.a. The Wood or Calderon's Art School) was an art school in St John's Wood, north London, England. The Art School was established in 1878 and was located on Elm Tree Road. [1] It was founded by two art teachers, Elíseo Abelardo Alvarez Calderón (1847-1911) and Bernard Evans Ward.
St. John's Wood School of Art. The School which was located on Elm Tree Road in St. John's Wood and founded in 1878 by Peruvian-born painter Abelardo Alvarez Calderon. Entry to the school was initially restricted to students training for entry into the Royal Academy Schools. As a result between 1880 and 1903 over 300 of its students succeeded ...
The Wood or Calderon's Art School) was an art school in St John's Wood, north London, England. The Art School was established in 1878 and was located on Elm Tree Road. It was founded by two art teachers, Elíseo Abelardo Alvarez Calderón (1847-1911) and Bernard Evans Ward. Lewis Baumer, Byam Shaw and Frank Cadogan Cowper were early students.
The Anglo-French Art Centre (or Anglo-French Art School, previously the St John's Wood Art School, was an art school at 29 Elm Tree Road in St John's Wood, north London, England. The centre was founded in 1946 by Alfred Rozelaar Green, who studied in Paris at the Académie Julian and Atelier Gromaire before the Second World War. [1]
- St John’s Wood Art School
- Women Students
- 1920s and 30s
- The Anglo-French Art Centre
The school had modest beginnings in Elm Tree Road where in 1878 the Eyre estate granted permission to A. A. (Abelardo Alvarez ) Calderon, Bernard Ward and Leonard Pownall for conversion of the then numbered 6 and 7 to an art school. In the 1881 census artist A.A.Calderon was living at no 7 with his wife and 2 children and a lodger, art student Bern...
Opportunities for women artists to receive an education were opening up in London. They could study at the Royal Female School of Art, which had been founded in 1842 with the aim of enabling young women of the middle class to obtain an honourable and profitable employment. Its teaching was originally carried out at Somerset House in rooms below the...
Aina Onabolu 1881 – 1963
from 1920 – 22 the first African to study art in England was studying at the School. Aina was the son of a Nigerian merchant who had started painting when he was twelve and had become a competent draftsman. After attending the St Johns Wood Art School he went on to the Academie Julien in Paris and on his return to Nigeria he was a pioneering art teacher, introducing European ideas like perspective and he also introduced indigenous arts and handicrafts into the curriculum. His own speciality w...
The Prospectus for 1933
said the St Johns Wood School flourished as an institution independent of subsidy and free from outside jurisdiction and enjoyed the patronage of painters such as Sir George Clausen, Sir John Lavery, and Sir Alfred Munnings. The new Principals, Patrick Millard and Ernest Perry, put greater emphasis on modern design. and all teaching emphasised 3 elements – the physical, the mental and the spiritual, or to be more exact, the Hand and Eye, the Reason which controls them, and the Creative Urge o...
Ivon Hitchens 1893-1979
Ayrton was a painter sculptor, novelist and obsessed with flight, myths and mazes. He was a great friend of Minton and together they provided the scenery for John Gielgud’s wartime production of Macbeth in 1942. He lived at 42 Hamilton Terrace.
This was set up by painter Alfred Rozelaar Green (1918 – 2013)as a visionary art school that brought famous French sculptors and painters, such as Fernand Leger and Germaine Richier to teach in London and revolutionise British art by keeping the avant-garde alive. Green had been born in London but studied in Paris in 1938, fleeing the Nazis when wa...
Travelling to London 1903, she briefly studied at St John’s Wood School and then took private lessons with Australian artist George Lambert, who would become a close friend and mentor. In London, Proctor mixed with a circle including William Orpen, Augustus John, Wilson Steer and expatriate Australians Charles Conder, Arthur Streeton and Tom ...
St John's Wood School of Art had modest beginnings in Elm Tree Road where in 1878 the Eyre estate granted permission to Peruvian-born painter Abelardo Alvarez Calderon, Bernard Ward and Leonard Pownall for conversion of the then numbered 6 and 7 to an art school. Entry to the school was initially restricted to students training for entry into ...
