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2 unusual facts about Westminster School of Art


Garth Williams

He began his studies at Westminster School of Art in 1929 and in 1931 was awarded a four-year scholarship to the Royal College of Art, where he created a sculpture that was awarded the British Prix de Rome.

Norman Mills Price

Born in Brampton, Ontario, Canada, he studied at the Ontario School of Art, then in London at the Westminster School of Art and the Goldsmith’s Institute.


Frederick Gore

Leaving Oxford, and arriving in London, Gore trained at the Slade under Henry Tonks and at the Westminster School of Art with Mark Gertler and Polunin from whom he learnt the flat-on-the-floor method of painting backdrops for the theatre: most useful later on when as an active member of the Balalaika Dance Group as dancer and organiser of events, he enhanced their productions with his professional expertise.

Rose Mead

She left there to study at the Westminster School of Art, London in 1892, under the tutorship of Frederick Brown just prior to his appointment as Professor at the Slade School of Fine Art.


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