Massachusetts College of Art and Design - Palette and Pen Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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FREDERICK WALLACE Fenway Studios. 30 Ipswich Street, lioston. Mass. •Muninus iM. X. . . S. Studied at .Acadeniie Julien and the Carlarossis in Paris Instructor in Life .and Painting Mr. Wallace is one of the younger mem- bers of the faculty. He continues to pro- duce portraits which bring him praise and a well-deserved reputation from a satisfied clientele. His foibles, if reported correctly, are for a mild sort of cussing and a tendency to make queer faces at his mod- els. Since this is the year book, the cuss- ing is necessarily mild, and the latter fault we may forgive because the portraits are so successful. Mr. Wallace rapidly works to the position of one of Boston’s well- known portrait painters and he exhibits at the St. Botnlph Club. V’ose Galleries and Cassons. I.ILLIAX A. PHILLIPS 36 Robinwood . ve., Jamaica Plain, Mass. Alumnus M. X. S.: Degrees B.S., .M.A., Columbia Instructor in Crafts DAXIEL O. BREWSTER 17. Branch St., Boston. IMass. . lumnus I. X ' . .A. S.: Secretary. Copley Society; Instructor in Stage Craft at Emer- son: Teaching Experience at Hartford Art School and in Cornish and Chester, X. H. Instructor in Pageantry and D esign -Away from the tumult of the city, around the corner from the crowd, is the studio of a quiet artist. When the lowly Freshman has passed this portal and been invited to tea here among the bits of Ital- ian treasures, he is given to reflections upon his extreme good luck in knowing Mr. Brewster. But a true realization of it comes when the music of encouragement steers many a lower classman through the sulphurous blue, period when the spirit is low. He fiercely concentrates upon stage work with a contagious enthusiasm. His stage presentations border on absolute perfection in color. Air. Brewster ' s only failing, if we may call it a failing, is a liking for community poetry which is de- claimed between deep breaths and with chest expanded. ALARY AI. RUGG 62 Hamilton Street, Wollaston. Alass. .Alumnus AI.X’..A.S. and Cooper ' s Union; studied at Pratt Institute and the Chicago School of Design Instructor in Costume Illustration Airs. Rugg is actually one of the faculty in spite of the fact that her youthfulness leads visitors and half the lower classmen to mistake her for a student. .After such domestic duties and tribulations as the subduing of the incendiary tendencies of her children. Airs. Rugg has still an aston- ishing amount of energy as she conducts her classes in costume illustration. .She is first to consider the standards required in artistic illustration for advertising. We regret that she is able only to spend two period.s a week with her class. LEO O ' DOXXELL 56 Eellsway East, Alalden .Alumnus AI. X. .A. S. Illustrator Instructor in .Antique and Life Drawing. Clever, facile fingers always patiently willing to show the way and guide the awkward hands through the problems. Aliss Phillips ' course requires much time and practice but her pupils insist that it is delightful work and a solution to the prob- lem of Christmas gifts. Certainly variety of work in Crafts would prevent any bore- dom. and its usefulness has no limits, for the problems when finished are applicable or have something in common with other pieces of school work. Air. O ' Donnell one morning read poetry to his class. We have decided, in retro- spect, that we enjoyed poetry reading while we worked, but at the moment, and for a short time, we were acutely uncom- fortable from mere astonishment. We had recited for Air. Brewster but then we had done the declaiming — here we were the en- tertained. Alay he continue with his happy inspiration. Air. O ' Donnell carries on a successful illustration business besides his classes in this school. To him we owe our first profitable introduction to the modern illustrators ' and designers ' work in com- mercial advertising. His new studio, near the Aluseum, is one of the old houses of X’ew England design in Boston.

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I y WILIU-R I)I;AX ha.mii.tox T rinity Court. Dartmouth Street, lloston -Mumnus of M.X’.. ..S.: pupils at the Kcole (ies Beaux .Arts, Paris Head of the Dep.xrt.mknt of Tine .Arts .Amid the battery of colored lifthts. Air. Hamilton, with all the finesse of an artist and the ingenuity of a stage director, as- sembles his classes and poses the figure.- for the composition. Evidently man ' think that the study of composition should not be limited to the painters, for the Tuesdax ' afternoon classes are visited regularly and with satisfying results. Occasionally to us on the outside there comes a shout when someone puts up a canvas for an ' .A Mr. Hamilton has the deep respect of his stu- dents. Spottings have taken a strong h(dd. and there is a general striving for good work under his genial encouragement AXXA Al.AVHEW H.U H.WV.W 1409 Commonwealth .Ave.. .Mlston. Mass. Lowell School of Design. Boston: Harvard Summer School Instrcctor in Color H.xr.mo.nv Infinite kindness, patience, and helpful- ness. .Miss Hathaway never fails us. However poor the drawing or however despairing the student, she always finds some ray of hope to which one may cling. We fear we must sometimes prove very trying to one of her sensitiveness, but she never lets us feel it if we do. .Vnd all of us have grown to realize that no one can come in contact with Miss Hathaway with- out gaining a keener feeling f or what is truly harmonious in art and life. Tor she not only impresses one with her personal charm: she has also a subtle power of stimulating the sense of beauty in others. R.AV.MOXD PORTER .53 Harvard Street. Cambridge. Mass. Stuflied at the Chicago Art Institute. Alember of the Boston Society of Sculptors. Alember of the Copley Society Head of the Department of Sci lpture Poet, philosopher, artist and sculptor is our friend and instructor. Air. Porter. It is difficult, perhaps, to picture this delight- ful master of design, this genial, helpful advisor, an erstwhile cowpuncher. His in- formal lectures, which he ludds sometimes to crowds three tiers high before his desk, are filled with interest of other countrie- and unu ual books. To describe Air. Por- ter ' s individual techni(|ue in mode ' ing is but to indicate his breadth of mind, his geniality and his charm of personalitx . Whether it is an illustrated talk of his Tlorida work or a constructive criticism of a composition, his p ' .pil is grateful for every word. .A record of the fine memo- rials over the country done by Air. Porter, and his sculpture at the recent Boston Ex- hibition. make the -Massachusetts .‘school of .Art not a little proud that he is a mem- ber of our faculty. JO.SEPH GOSS COWELL 221 Columbus -Ave., Boston, Wrentham Student at X . A ' . .Art Students’ League, Boston Aluseum School, Julian .Acad- emy in Paris. Rome and London. Instructor in Drwvino and Painting The chance for class criticism by Air. Cowell in life drawing comes only to the fortunate Treshmen and Sophomores, but we are not entirely cut off. for through the last two years of school we are occasion- tilly favored with a bracing correction of our work when we visit his classes. But it is for the lower classmen that Air. Cowell supervises the plays and entertainments which are presented to the school. Between his modeling classes at the Xew School of Design and his good-natured advice for his students ' work here, he calls upon all his friends, singers, craftsmen and writers, to attend the assemblies under his charge. Air. Cowell is a consummate worker, and we expect soon to have the result in the church mura’s he is now painting CYRUS EDW.VRD D.ALLIX 09 Oakland . ve . .Arlington Heights. .Mass. Pupil of Truman 11. Bartlett Studied .Abroad .Advisory Head of Dept, of Sculpture • ' Good morning, young people. welL what can 1 do to help you this morning? ' ’ S-.-.ch is a greeting familiar to the modelling students, who look up and see Air. Dallin smiling in the doorway, and such is his since e wish, to he ' p us get a little c ' oser to nature each time. His boyhooil was silent in the open and he took from the grandeur of the mountains and the songs of the pines their greatest secret sin- cerity. ' Truly, he is an artist. AA ' e su-pect he would like to have another lifetime be- fore him in which to continue the never tiring fun that he might get still closer to nature. Xot to love this gracious man is not to know him. 1

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MISS IRMA COFREX 1334 Commonwealth Ave., Boston Alumnus M. X. A. S., Experience with Hickson ' s, Xew York and Connick Studios Instructor in Costume Desion X ' ever have any students thought more of any instructor than the Costume De- signers do of Miss Cofren. They all feel that theirs is the best course in school and that it is so only because of IMiss Cofren. She is a perfect example of Practice what you preach.” except that she doesn ' t preach. , nd now. as if she didn ' t have enou.gh in her favor, she is going to live in Paris all summer long — and do we envy her? The seniors only regret that they won ' t be in her classes next fall to profit by her wealth of information. However, the chances are that Miss Cofren will have six all too eager visitors on her return to earth. DR. JAMES MACE , NDRESS 67 Clyde Street, Xewtonville BPD. and .A.B. degree from Mich. State Normal College; Ph.M. from Univer- sity of Chicago; . .M. from Harvard; Ph ' .D., Clark University; Head of Dept, of Psychology and Social Hy- giene, State Normal School, Worcester. Instructor, Department of Education Dr. .Andress is the type of man who has helped to bring the universe in university. His fund of knowledge, sparkling personal- ity (maybe the eyes), dynamic presenta- tion, and psychological psychology are combined to make him convincing to the point of hypnotism. The treatments he has given to us for teaching and private problems are vitally valuable. As artists, we are impudent to add that we enjoy his color and his slimness, and that he is most pleasing in greys. WALTER JAMESON 51 Walker Street, Cambridge, Mass. Oraduate of Vale, .A.B., .A.M.: Graduate work at Harvard; studied at Colum- bia; instructor at AI. 1. T. Instructor in English It is pleasant to consider that before we leave these ancestral halls and scenes of early literary struggles which were con- trolled quarterly by Mr. Jamison, that it is our privilege to deliver ourselves of a very humble sort of eulogy to an instructor, who alone, and at times with slight en- couragement, endeavored to hold us to a state of fair intelligence. Some drank deep of the stream, to the best of their abilities; some perished by the wayside and a few Phillistines spoke lightly of the wisdom thereof. Mr. Jamison, like Mr. -Major, was a hard-hearted reformer to the High School Graduates. .At this date, there is a disposition to realize what the benefits of the English class were. To Mr. Jamison must go the credit for a strong faith in the possibilities of the .Art Gum, which to an appreciable extent has been justified. EFFIE BYRON WHITTIT 15 Clifton Road, Roxbury, Mass. Studied at Boston P ' niversity, Simmons and the M. N. .A. S. Librarian and Preceptress •As we go to press we are unable to de- termine if it is Airs. Whittit or her daugh- ter Helen who is indisposed. Either one or the other may be true but we deserve the sympathy. Our lives have been as dust and ashes trying to get keys or books while Mrs. Whittit languishes amid the mumps. We haven ' t been shushed for three months and we miss it. Mrs. Whittit ties our diplomas and orders potted palms in greei tubs and kisses us all goodby at Com- mencement, while we clutch the aforesaid diplomas, and forget the books and keys and car checks we didn ' t get and the seven thousand shushes ' ’ we did — and sally forth rooting for “ ' Muddy Whittit and the Eastern .Star. 73 Parker Street, Newton Center, Mass. Degree from Harvard. Studied at Tech- nology and abroad Instructor in .Architectural Drafting We are determined to express here our admiration for Air. Kendall and his art, and to confess the personal sympathy we had for him as he tried to steady our fal- tering steps through the labyrinth of Ionic volutes and past the confusion of acanthus leaves. Air. Kendall was too fine an archi- tect to ever take us seriously, but too much of a tolerant and friendly instructor to ever grow impatient. Fortunately, our own proficiency in this classic art was not necessary in order for us to appreciate its beauty and estimate its value in our educa- tion. ALBERT S. KENDALL