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Slade Sketch Club, 1899
By Slade Archive Project, on 24 September 2013
Another remnant of ‘Ye’ Slade Sketch Club, a beautiful little leaflet dating from 1899.
Slade students were encouraged to join the Sketch Club, which was structured around a series of set composition subjects and monthly prizes. The 18th-century traditional song and poem ‘Sally in our Alley’ included in the list of composition subjects shows how the club encouraged the exploration of themes beyond traditional biblical and classical subjects. The inclusion of poetry, drama and literature as optional subjects continued under William Coldstream’s professorship. Slade alumni of the 1950s, for instance, have described how T.S. Eliot’s classic poem ‘The Waste Land’ and Dylan Thomas’s 1954 radio drama ‘Under Milk Wood’ were two of the themes set for the summer composition competition. It’s not clear when (or why) the club disbanded; any leads from Slade alumni on this subject would be most welcome.
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curtrice wrote on 25 September 2013:
RT @melissaterras: New bloggage over at @SladeArchive – the Slade Sketch Club 1899 http://t.co/V4wziYackX cc @uclnews
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Sketch Clubs, Circa 1900 | Arts.xcuz.me wrote on 17 June 2015:
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Sketch Clubs, Circa 1900 – ArtsArts wrote on 17 June 2015:
[…] Pyle’s Sketch Club on the Howard Pyle blogLondon Sketch Club‘s current websiteSlade Archive Project, which is archiving ephemeraPrevious related posts: Cecil Aldin, Phil May, Drawn Together, Golden […]
New bloggage over at @SladeArchive – the Slade Sketch Club 1899 http://t.co/V4wziYackX cc @uclnews