Studio: international art (79.1920)

COLONEL F. R. DURHAM, O.B.E., M.C.,
LEGION OF HONOUR, R.E. FROM A
DRAWING BY FRANCIS E. HODGE,R.B.A.

STUDIO-TALK.

{From our own Correspondents.)

LONDON.—The two gaps in the ranks
4 of the Royal Academicians left by the
death of Mr. A. C. Gow and Mr. Alfred
Parsons were filled by the election of Sir
Edwin Lutyens, architect, and Mr. H.
Hughes-Stanton, painter. Both were
elected Associates in 1913. Mr. Hughes-
Stanton is Vice-President of the Royal
Society of Painters in Water Colours, which
has not yet elected a President in succession
to Mr. Parsons. 0000
The office of Keeper of the Royal
Academy held by the late Mr. A. C. Gow,

R.A., has been allotted to< Mr. Charles
Sims, who became a Royal Academician in
1915. The appointment carries with it a
residence at Burlington House, and the
principal duty of the Keeper is the sur-
veillance of the Schools of the Academy. 0
The Academy has had to endure a good
many kicks of late years, and it cannot be
denied that there has been some justifica-
tion for many of the criticisms passed upon
it, though it seems to be overlooked that, as
evidenced by the elections to its ranks in
the last ten years or so, it has been gradually
assuming a more modern complexion than
its assailants give it credit for. There is,
however, further room for amendment in

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