International studio (53.1914)

American Art at Shepherd's Bush

THE CIRCUS BY GEORGE BELLOWS


and poetical, but in comparison with the Abbey is
not the latter’s equal in fineness, labour or thought.
Among the others represented are Stanhope
Forbes, Waterlow, the gifted Solomon, Shannon,
R. P. Reid, Charlton (in a dramatic picture of
women managing a life-boat), Holl, and Mrs. W.
Allingham. The quality of the last makes one
think of William Allingham’s lines:

Up the airy mountain,
Down the rushy glen,
Wee folk, good folk.
Outside the Hall are portraits of Jefferson Davis
and several Confederate generals, nearly side by
side with the exhibition of our Christian Scien-
tists, a few rods away from our cowboys. It is
well for all these elements to kowtow to art.

A PASTORAL TWILIGHT BY A. B. DAVIES


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