Blad 31 uit Stamboek van de leerlingen der Koloniale School voor Meisjes en Vrouwen te 's-Gravenhage deel II (1930-1949) Possibly 1931 - 1937

This page from a school register was made in the Hague, sometime between 1930 and 1949. Each of the entries has been carefully written in ink with a fountain pen, and the entries have a bureaucratic order, and yet! There are these photographic portraits that have been glued in! It makes me wonder, who were these young women, and what were they studying? What did they aspire to? I imagine the administrator of this school carefully pasting in each of these photos next to each student's name. Each of the handwriting samples are unique to the individual. I see the careful "J.d.Heuvelinck" next to the more decorative "M.a.von Holten". Every artist thinks of their work as a conversation, not just with themselves, but with artists from the past, present, and future. Artists are inspired and influenced by one another's creativity in an ongoing exchange of ideas.