The Grahamstown Fine Art Association

Title: The Grahamstown Fine Art Association
Creator: Cook, J C W
Subject: Grahamstown Fine Art Association Rhodes University -- History Artists -- South Africa Painters -- South Africa Rhodes University -- School of Art
Date Issued: 1974
Date: 1974
Type: Thesis
Type: Masters
Type: MFA
Identifier: vital:2476
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1010601
Description: When he opened the 24th annual exhibition of students' work on the 1st July, 1927, Professor F.W. Armstrong gave the following account of the beginnings of the Grahamstown School of Art: ... The appointment of a master was the responsibility of Sir Langham Dale, the Superintendent General of Education in the Cape Colony. His choice for the first art master of the Grahamstown School of Art was Mr.W. H. Simpson. Simpson had studied at the South Kensington Museum then at the Royal Academy. During the 1870's he had exhibited in the Royal Academy, at other exhibitions in London, and in the provinces. Intro. p. 1.
Format: 52 leaves
Format: pdf
Publisher: Rhodes University
Publisher: Faculty of Humanities, Fine Art
Language: English
Rights: Cook, J C W

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