St John's Wood Art School

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The St John's Wood Art School (abbreviated as The Wood called) was an art school in St John's Wood in north London .

The school was founded in 1878 by the two art teachers Elíseo Abelardo Alvarez Calderón (1847-1911) and Bernard E. Ward in London at "7, Elm Tree Road". Lewis Baumer , Cadogan Cowper, and Byam Shaw were among her early students. Later students included John Armstrong, Michael Ayrton, Enid Glocke, Frank Beresford, Paula Modersohn-Becker , Kenneth Martin , John Minton , Olive Mudie-Cooke , Ursula Wood , Herbert James Draper , Flora Lion , Hannah Gluckstein, and Christopher RW Nevinson . Further teachers were at times Vanessa Bell, John Piper and John Skeaping.

It was closed in 1951.

Web links

  • The St. John's Wood Art Schools. Excerpt from Every Woman's Encyclopaedia [2]
  • Gerald Isaaman: Feature: Exhibition- Rediscovery of a chapter in London's art history - St John's Wood Art School and The Anglo-French Art Center - Boundary Gallery. Camden New Journal. (November 11, 2010), Retrieved January 13, 2017. [3]
  • "Anglo-French Art Center". Art Biographies, UK. Retrieved January 13, 2017, [4]

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Elíseo Abelardo Alvarez Calderón
  2. ↑ Bridget Clarke: Elm Tree Road from 1870s to the end of WW1. July 14, 2013 [1]

Coordinates: 51 ° 31 '47.7 "  N , 0 ° 10' 31.2"  W.