DOI issue:
No. 327 (June 1920)
DOI article:The Royal Academy Exhibition, 1920
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21360#0130
THE ROYAL ACADEMY EXHIBITION, 1920
“THE CONVALESCENT.” BY
SIR JOHN LAVERY, A.R.A.
(Copyright strictly reserved)
attention has been put where it can be
seen to advantage, and a by no means un-
successful attempt has been made to attain
a decorative balance in the hanging and
to give the rooms a pleasant appearance.
In carrying out this new policy somewhat
drastic rejections have, no doubt, been
necessary, but the Academy is justified
by the gain in the quality of the exhibition.
It must be admitted, however, that the
exhibition is somewhat lacking in figure
subjects of an ambitious type. There are
large canvases, like Sir John Lavery's
Admiral Beatty reading the Terms of the
Armistice to the German Delegates, Mr.
H. A. Olivier's The Supreme War Council,
Versailles, July 1918, and Mr. F. O.
Salisbury's The National Peace Thanks-
giving Service on the Steps of St. Paul's,
124
July 6, 1919, and there are smaller things
of the same class, like Sir William Orpen's
two amazingly skilful Peace Conference
pictures, and Mr. Fred Roe's clever
Recruiting in the Guildhall by Sir Charles
Wakefield, Bt., Lord Mayor of London,
1915-16, but these are illustrative rather
than imaginative, and have not offered
much scope for originality of expression.
In them all, however, sufficiently serious
technical difficulties have been surmounted
with a considerable measure of success. 0
There is more appeal to the imagination
in such pictures as Mr. Richard Jack’s
Love tunes the Shepherd's Reed, Mr.
Spencer Watson's The Three Wise Kings,
and Mr. Oswald Moser's The Dwarf.
Mr. Jack has painted a charming piece
of fancy with grace and distinction, and
“THE CONVALESCENT.” BY
SIR JOHN LAVERY, A.R.A.
(Copyright strictly reserved)
attention has been put where it can be
seen to advantage, and a by no means un-
successful attempt has been made to attain
a decorative balance in the hanging and
to give the rooms a pleasant appearance.
In carrying out this new policy somewhat
drastic rejections have, no doubt, been
necessary, but the Academy is justified
by the gain in the quality of the exhibition.
It must be admitted, however, that the
exhibition is somewhat lacking in figure
subjects of an ambitious type. There are
large canvases, like Sir John Lavery's
Admiral Beatty reading the Terms of the
Armistice to the German Delegates, Mr.
H. A. Olivier's The Supreme War Council,
Versailles, July 1918, and Mr. F. O.
Salisbury's The National Peace Thanks-
giving Service on the Steps of St. Paul's,
124
July 6, 1919, and there are smaller things
of the same class, like Sir William Orpen's
two amazingly skilful Peace Conference
pictures, and Mr. Fred Roe's clever
Recruiting in the Guildhall by Sir Charles
Wakefield, Bt., Lord Mayor of London,
1915-16, but these are illustrative rather
than imaginative, and have not offered
much scope for originality of expression.
In them all, however, sufficiently serious
technical difficulties have been surmounted
with a considerable measure of success. 0
There is more appeal to the imagination
in such pictures as Mr. Richard Jack’s
Love tunes the Shepherd's Reed, Mr.
Spencer Watson's The Three Wise Kings,
and Mr. Oswald Moser's The Dwarf.
Mr. Jack has painted a charming piece
of fancy with grace and distinction, and