BR
studied art first at Lambeth School of Art, then, on a London County Council
scholarship, at the Slade School of Art
in London, where she was taught by Henry Tonks
. She then...
Education
Margaret Legge
The facts that she writes about art students, and that she attended the memorial service for art professor Henry Tonks
on 15 January 1937, suggest that she may—like the somewhat younger Berta Ruck
, Gwen John
Instructor
Dorothy Brett
Brett proved an exceptional Slade student. She received first prize for figure painting in her final year. She particularly drew the attention of two of her instructors, Henry Tonks
andFrederick Brown
. She was...
Instructor
Dora Carrington
Critic Jane Hill
notes that though Carrington entered the Slade at a remarkable period in its own history (Henry Tonks
called it a second, and last, crisis of brilliance)
Birne, Eleanor. “At Dulwich Picture Gallery”. London Review of Books, Vol.
35
, No. 17, 12 Sept. 2013, p. 37.
and in that of...
Instructor
Clemence Dane
As a teenager, CD
wrote later, she suffered much in dancing-classes and wore her prejudice against dance like armour in [her] first battles with the world.
Dane, Clemence. London Has a Garden. Michael Joseph, 1964.
159
On her return from Geneva she began the...
Instructor
Iris Tree
Around 1910, IT
began attending the Slade School of Art in London, where she studied under Henry Tonks
and Ambrose McEvoy
. Her time as an art student was also a time of exploration...
Textual Features
Pat Barker
The story begins with the ambitions and emotional entanglements of a small group of Slade School of Art
students (two men, Paul Tarrant and the precocious success Kit Neville, and one strikingly talented woman, Elinor...