Newark School of Fine and Industrial Art - Fawcett Yearbook (Newark, NJ)

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PAINTING We started in the second year, And went to meet our teachers. The work seemed strange to us at first, A lot of poor, dumb creatures. First, Mr. Cimiotti comes Then next comes Mrs. Stroud, And when these two get through with you You'll grab the nearest cloud. Put in your darkest dark right away The teachers all would say, ‘Then work up to your lights and shades And leave it be that way. Now model it, model it, make it round, Pull out your high lights too, You work as awkward as a clown, Don’t come in class to chew! Now, Mr. Cimiotti said, What makes you look so glum? If you would do what I say do You’d make that picture hum. You told me make the picture hum, I’d rather hear it sing, And I’ve been listening since you left, But haven’t heard a thing. Now when you go to paint a tree The leaves all disappear, And all you see is one big mass Of lights and darks, from here, You are too neat, your work looks like A piece of polished brass, Don’t slick it up, just slash it in, Now, that looks more like grass. EucEnE A. Burkes. [ 54 ] CAST DRAWING When we entered Fawcett Art School In the first year class by day, We went up to Mr. Kleinfeldt, And right there we had to pray. ‘“Now sharpen up your charcoal “Like a butcher does his knife, “And we'll start with Mr. Adam, “Later on we'll draw his wife.” Oh, he’s strict and then he’s joky, There’s no finer man I know, If you just work and study You will always find him so. He will always come and help you When you’re stuck deep in the mire And he even asks the janitor To please stir up the fire. Now if I place my charcoal here, And draw from “dare” to “dare” This horizontal line would run Right smack into the hair. That’s just his way of speaking, But we always liked him so And all the other teachers Are just as nice, you know. EucENE A. Burkes. FAWCETT SPIRIT There’s one thing that all students have, From first year until fourth That brings them from the east and west, And from the south and north. It keeps them busy al the day And working by the rule It’s just the simplest sort of thing It’s the “Spirit of the School.”

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HISTORY OF ART ei banging doors and cries for lost coats and hats and much pushing and shoving, students finally manage to avoid each other’s arms and legs, and with coats half on and with hats in hand to dash for vs }, the door and down the street. What is it all about? A Fawcett class out for aire Goodness no! Out for knowledge. Travels ahead. Not only through Europe, Asia, and Africa but up through the ages. Once a week the students leave their own attempt toward the artistic and go across-the street to the Academy Street Annex, there to learn what others have done in the ages past. One can learn these things from the books, but how much easier it is to learn that Rembrandt was a Dutch painter or that the Pyramids were Egyp- tian from lectures by our interesting instructor,—each lecture illus- trated with lantern slides, giving double advantage of the spoken word and the pictures. The history of art from the first clumsy attempts to the present day modern artists comes clear before us. Is the history of art course a success? We all answer, “It is.” Ay LILLIAN PLANK CONTESTS 1927-1928 Book JAacket—Howard R. Garis SMALL GARDEN COMPETITION—Newark Gerard Hesselgren..... 1st prize $15.00 Garden Club August Schnitzler. . . . .2nd 4) 10.00 Bruce Harden....1st prize $ 5.00 aa rie Fiorito. . apes 3rd 5.00 Allen Speer. . . lst honorable mention izabeth Baldwins. .. 4th 2.50 ‘Albers Ree LEP Meare Isabelle Cooke........ Ath pers 2.50 DRAWING OF Esk1mMos—Bamberger’s Poster CoNTEST—59th Anniversary Sale Constance Reed....... Ist prize $10.00 of the Kresge Department Store George Foy.......... 2nd “ 10.00 George Foy.......... Ist prize $25.00 4 Joseph Simcich...... Hd 11 SON 15.00 Otto Sommer. seen eee. Ist prize $15.00 Matthew Milewski....2nd 10.00 “HAS hg) Pony ck eh SED Newark Art CLug Poster Theatre Virtuosity in Painting Fred Maurer......... Ist prize $15.00 Raymond Vartanian...1st prize $ 5.00 Margaret Pikutis......2nd ‘“ 10.00 August Schnitzler......3rd “ 5.00 ART IN GREECE Isabelle Cooke........ Ist prize $ 5.00 Rin eaea Mt hod GRO B ater Machine Tool Co. NEWARK MATERNITY HosPITAL ConTEST Edwin Swezy.........1st prize $15.00 Blanche Rawitz.. .Ist prize ae 00° Philip Taylor.........2nd =“ 10.00 David Walsh...:..... cand 4 5.00 Norbert Damm........3rd “ 5.00 [ 53 ]

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CLASS PROPHECY Day ScHoo , 1928 VEUereee gi tetndy IFTH Avenue was in a state of confusion, an excited crowd thronging the sidewalks as I was making hasty steps toward Greenwich Village , very much elated over the fact that I had been asked to a studio party (ine for the Earl of Quackenbush. My heart actually jumped when I thought of meeting the Earl in as cozy and quaint an environment as Margaret Pikutis’ studio. A very boisterous person pushed me in the back. I turned around not intending “to whisper sweet nothings in her ear.” It was no other than Alice Ecker—now grown very stout. She pleaded guilty for the violent way in which she had treated me and later told me she was designing posters for a baby talcum powder firm. In the first car of the parade I could see Colonel and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh. Mrs. Lindbergh, you know, was the former Lilly Sittard. They had just arrived from Paris in their private plane “Farina.” Kay Lowry, Ziegfield’s latest find, was with them. Fifteen minutes later I was tripping the light fantastic up the stairs of the studio. An echo of a hearty laugh reached me. That was Constance Reed, much in the limelight since last year. When hunting big game in Africa she made a very clever etching of a mammoth charging. I saw first Anthony Chufi, the distinguished author. He apol- ogized for not coming down to see me but told me he was very busy writing for “True Story” magazine. In the course of conversation I remembered that I had for- gotten a package of “Brownies” I had bought uptown especially for Helene Slattery. George Neil was there “with spats on.” He was flattering Mollie Savad so much I wondered whether she would be able to get her hat on. I noted a number of Pauline Francis’ landscape paintings graced the walls. She was there, as ever, with a cheerful word. | Miss Pikutis, the great artist, induced us to stay and join a theatre party that evening at Roxy’s. We were delighted to learn we were to see Louise Humphreys, who took Mademoiselle Gam- barelli’s place. David Walsh was on the program as a special feature, to show us some new and clever tricks in chalk-talking. It was quite late when Laura Lowe and Blanche Rawitz came in. Laura had been busy all day selling a book entitled “The Gift of Narration”; Blanche a book on “Etiquette in Paris.” The picture starred Carlton Pierce, the titles by Elmer Pierce. E55]