"In 1917, she met Roger Fry, an English artist and art critic at his exhibition of Children’s Art (Omega Galleries, London). Marion showed him a portfolio of works by her pupils. Impressed, Fry included some of them in the exhibition and began to promote her work, bringing her to critical and public attention. In 1923-24, Marion organised an exhibition of her pupils’ work at the Independent Galleries in London, which attracted considerable press interest. In January 1924, the magazine Vogue nominated her for its Hall of Fame. Such publicity created an increasing demand for her pupils’ work to be exhibited across the country and for Marion to give an extensive number of lectures to organisations and societies." (https://www.bcu.ac.uk/arts-design-and-media/art-and-design-archive/collections/marion-richardson-collection)
"Cizek’s ideas about child art won international acclaim mainly because of his involvement in exhibitions and lectures. In 1908, with the help of his old Secessionist friend, Gustav Klimt, Cizek presented his students’ artwork at a public exhibition called the Kunstschau (Waller, 2014). It was there that children’s artwork was first displayed as equal in prestige to the work of professional artists. Following the exhibition, Cizek spoke at educational conferences in London in 1908, Milan in 1911 and in Dresden in 1912, bringing his philosophies and concepts abroad to other progressive educators (Chilvers & Glaves-Smith, 2015). In 1919, the exhibition of the Jugendkunstklasse artwork toured England and the United States sponsored by the Save the Children Fund, and in 1924, the show moved to Sydney (Gooding, 2007; Peers, 2003). After the touring art shows, teachers from across the globe, impressed with the level of visual mastery by the school-aged children, flocked to Vienna to experience, first-hand, the great innovative work of Cizek and his students." (https://franzcizek.myfreesites.net/child-art)
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"In 1917, she met Roger Fry,…
"In 1917, she met Roger Fry, an English artist and art critic at his exhibition of Children’s Art (Omega Galleries, London). Marion showed him a portfolio of works by her pupils. Impressed, Fry included some of them in the exhibition and began to promote her work, bringing her to critical and public attention. In 1923-24, Marion organised an exhibition of her pupils’ work at the Independent Galleries in London, which attracted considerable press interest. In January 1924, the magazine Vogue nominated her for its Hall of Fame. Such publicity created an increasing demand for her pupils’ work to be exhibited across the country and for Marion to give an extensive number of lectures to organisations and societies." (https://www.bcu.ac.uk/arts-design-and-media/art-and-design-archive/collections/marion-richardson-collection)
"Cizek’s ideas about child art won international acclaim mainly because of his involvement in exhibitions and lectures. In 1908, with the help of his old Secessionist friend, Gustav Klimt, Cizek presented his students’ artwork at a public exhibition called the Kunstschau (Waller, 2014). It was there that children’s artwork was first displayed as equal in prestige to the work of professional artists. Following the exhibition, Cizek spoke at educational conferences in London in 1908, Milan in 1911 and in Dresden in 1912, bringing his philosophies and concepts abroad to other progressive educators (Chilvers & Glaves-Smith, 2015). In 1919, the exhibition of the Jugendkunstklasse artwork toured England and the United States sponsored by the Save the Children Fund, and in 1924, the show moved to Sydney (Gooding, 2007; Peers, 2003). After the touring art shows, teachers from across the globe, impressed with the level of visual mastery by the school-aged children, flocked to Vienna to experience, first-hand, the great innovative work of Cizek and his students." (https://franzcizek.myfreesites.net/child-art)