Rochester Institute of Technology - Techmila / Ramikin Yearbook (Rochester, NY)

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 Shaping a bowl Beginning an oil study old life-line-to-the-Wcst with its bulky and squat lift- bridges. There are seascapes with the smell of salt in them, green waves breaking into a white surf, or quiet fogs settling at Ogunquit and Rockpoit, Maine, or Gloucester, Massachusetts. Inland there are rickety old houses on Cape Cod. and hundreds of miles farther inland, the fields, houses and barns of rural Michigan and Western New York. In “Class at R I. T. 1917 we catch a glimpse of a painting class as it appeared four years before Instructor Ulp became Director of the Applied Art Department in HIT. High button shoes and ankle length dresses glitter- ing below the hems of blue smocks were the feminine fashion highlights during the school day. As director, Mr. Ulp introduced the idea of moving picture episodes to train students to observe models in motion. He also helped in the development of the Roch- ester Art Scales, a tested method of evaluating art com- petence. There in the April exhibition we saw not pictures only but felt that we had studied the profile of a commercial illustrator, and fine landscape painter, long time lover of the RIT neighborhood, inventive teacher, and for SI years the director of the Department of Applied Arts, Mr. Clifford M. Ulp. Finishing touches on still life Instruction in modeling class

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CLIFFORD M. ULF FRIEDA RAU RALPH AVERY MILTON BOND FLETCHER CARPENTER ALLING CLEMENTS SYLVIA DAVIS RUTH GUTFRUCHT In April we walked briskly down the first floor corridor of the Bevier Building towards the large swinging doors. Glancing briefly into the Art Department office, we saw Miss Frieda Ran efficiently typing and the profile of Mr. Clifford M. UIp as he was interviewing a prospective student We turned into the exhibition room just across the hall and saw the opposite view of Mr. Ulp’s profile, the profile of his career in a retrospective exhibition of bis paintings and drawings. Here was the artist in a Rochester setting of 40 years ago. the young instructor of 35 years ago, and always the student of art, the lover of snowy vistas and of boats nodding in a quiet harbor. Wander again through the BIT neighborhood, the aristocratic Old Third Ward, and view Washington Street, 1913” and “Spring Dav. 1915,” a sunny quiet picture of nearby Livingston Park. Apparently there were always places to stop anti talk in the shade of a leafy tree In the Old Third Ward, 1919.” In the days before 1920, barges and tugs pushed through the waters of the Old Erie Canal that once flowed under the windows of the Institute where traffic- jammed Broad Street does today. Mr. Ulp made skillful documents in charcoal and paint of the hundred year Seventeen

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