TEMPORARY SKETCHING COURSE ATTRACTS SPECIAL INTEREST

One of the most interesting of the new Dartmouth courses combining practice with theory is the temporary course in sketching given by J. D. Katzieff of New York City, who is in Hanover working upon a new portrait of former President William J. Tucker. The course is given in an upper room in Culver Hall where Mr. Katzieff is engaged in his painting. It is one of the first instances where actual sketching has been combined with the usual study courses in art in this college, and is being carried on as part of the regular study in the Art Department. Mr. Katzieff volunteered to do the work when the proposition was made by members of the department, and the fact that the room serves for the present as the artist's studio gives the students a chance to see his progress in the painting of Doctor Tucker.

Mr. Katzieff who studied for a time at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and at the Pennsylvania Academy will remain in Hanover for a month more at least, until the finishing of the portrait, and during that time will meet in the class the men who requested to be members of it. It meets Monday, Wednesday and Friday afternoons or evenings according to schedule and already numbers twelve students. When Mr. Katzieff leaves, the class will probably be carried on under some member of the Art Department and may later be put on a permanent basis.