May 20 – June 30, 1966
Art Gallery, Eugenia Fuller Atwood Library
1966 BEAVER NEWS
“Sophomore-Junior Art Show Presented; Fashion Majors Work at Phila. Museum” by Sue Wood
Art majors at Beaver? We know they’re around. After all, fleeting students with portfolios scurry across the lawn morning, noon, and dusk; but then the rest of the day they disappear into the depths of Brookside Studios. What really goes on down there anyway?
In the current exhibition at the Library Gallery, the sophomores and juniors present what they’ve been doing all year – lithographs, oils (something to do with the essences of color and shape), “comps” (the weekly ordeal of creativity to which all art students must submit for at least two semesters, whereby a work is produced for criticism), architectural renderings of interiors, fashion illustrations, and design problems. Unfortunately some beautiful wood engravings and dry points of the sophomores never made it up to the gallery, but are hanging in the vestibule of the art store, if anyone cares to stop down and visit. Also unfortunate is the absence of labelled work according to year, for the type and level of a problem would make more sense to the observer if he could understand that architectural renderings, fashion drawings, and lithographs are not achieved in the sophomore year, but begun in the junior year when the student has completed two years of general studios and begins her concentration. Thank goodness name tags were finally tacked up, though apparently as a hasty afterthought.
Not all art majors hide down near the brook. Mrs. McGarvey, fashion illustration instructor and curator of the Fashion Wing of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, provides her girls with an enriching experience – all day Wednesday the girls spend in the museum for the course “Museum Research in Fashion.” They sketch from the costume collection or help prepare various special exhibits. For the past few months they have been assisting Mrs. McGarvey in restoring costumes and constructing mannequin forms for the show of “The Bride in Fashion: Three Centuries of Wedding Gowns.”
You may stop in to see the fruits of these students’ labors starting Friday, May 20. The exhibit lasts through June 30.
