Avon Old Farms School - Winged Beaver Yearbook (Avon, CT)

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Standrng Cleft to nghtj Cluxton Hams Nary Gallo J Robmson Lapham Seated Cleft to nghtj Attrrde Sumner Wir Smart Toogood Skemp ART CLUB An Art Club has been badly needed tt Avon for some years It was only by the htrd vxork of Mr Smart the club s tdvlsor th tt thls year a club w ts lnaugurftted Mr Smart had found 1 need for 1 tlub where and practtte the fine arts He was able to mterest few m the rdea of an Art Club and approached the htghest admmrstratton mth hrs plan for the club Mr Pterpont deltghted to hear of such an organtzatton betng formed on etmpus at once gne lf hrs backmg The club met every other Monday ntght but the enthusiasm of the Club members often found them together many txmes durmg the week The formtl Monday ntght meetmg offered an opportunrty to work on dlverslfied forms of art and to get xnstruc tron and advtce from Mr Smart H8 Many of the members took th1s ttme to work on thetr spectalxzed forms of art Errc Cluxton and Ernc Skemp worked on sketches of the school grounds and gave a special mstructron lecture on sketchmg Granny trrtcatures of vartous members of the student body One of the hrghltghts of the Monday meetmgs was an exhrbrtton by Stephen Summer of hrs finest photo graphs The club was able to plan a few field trtps Some of the places of rnterest around the Hartford area offerrng an artrstrc value are the Wadsworth Athen eum and the Yale Art Museum Mrs Evans was able to take a fortunate group to the Atheneum for an exh1b1t1on on Israelt and Far Eastern art The Athen eum was also the headquarters for the Annual Scho lastrc Art Show l l ' ' ' I , ' . ', , - ' , ' I ' , , L . , , ' ' ' ' 1 A . ' Q ' . Y t . A C . - ' A - L 1 l V 'ood z e n ' ' ' fhi t n artlstlcally mmded boys Could get together to dtscuss T095 gw a Sxhlbmon 0 S car 00 S and drew ' ' . . . ' A 11 K . . . ' y L L ' ' ' ' A T2 , . 1: ' ' ' ' Y. ' . , ' ' ' - . . Y V 2 '

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