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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Canterbury Provincial District]

The Canterbury College School Of Art

The Canterbury College School Of Art, which is affiliated with the Science and Art Department, South Kensington, was established in 1882. It occupies the two-storey stone building at the west end of Hereford Street, which was originally built for the Girls' High School. On the first floor is a large life room, which is considered to be the largest and best appointed in the Colony, and three other class-rooms. On the ground floor are two large class-rooms besides three masters' rooms. The total accommodation of the school is equal to 160 pupils, and it has been fitted up at great expense on the latest principles, with casts, models, and appliances. The objects of the school are to afford a systematic and scientific study of practical art, with a view to develop its application to the requirements of trade and manufactures, and for instruction in the various branches of drawing and painting The subjects of instruction embrace:—Drawing, elementary and advanced; elementary and advanced geometry and perspective applied to architecture and industrial art; architectural design and drawing; constructive and ornamental design in work other than architectural; principles and history of ornamental art; modelling in clay from life and the cast, and for relief design-moulding and casting in plaster; wood-carving and Stoyd or manual training; drawing and painting from the antique and life, both nude and draped; painting in monochrome and colours from still life, cast, flowers, etc.; and landscape painting from nature. Morning and evening classes are held on several days in each week. The total number of pupils in 1897 was 230, made up as follows:—Thirty-two attending the morning classes, 101 the evening classes, and ninety-seven the Saturday class. The Industrial Association of Canterbury has granted several scholarships amounting in all to £17 10s. per annum, and divided into seven scholarships of £2 10s. each. The headmaster, Mr. G. Herbert Elliott, is assisted by Messrs. A. W. Waish, C. Kidson. H. L. Gibson, and H. L. Smith, who are on the permanent staff, and by Mr. S. Hurst Seager, A.R.I.B.A., who gives instruction in wood-carving Sloyd or manual training, architectural design, drawing, and other subjects.

Canterbury College School of Art.

Canterbury College School of Art.