Studio: international art (81.1921)

portrait of mrs. douglas illing-
worth. by meredith frampton

A FEW WORDS ON THE ROYAL
ACADEMY EXHIBITION. BY
GABRIEL MOUREY, CONSERVA-
TEUR DES PALAIS NATIONAUX,
FRANCE. a 0 0 si a

To the Editor of The Studio.

KNOWING me to be in London, you
were good enough to ask me to give
the readers of The Studio my impressions
on the 153rd Exhibition of the Royal
Academy. I had hardly left the train bring-
ing me from Dover before I was taken by
you to Burlington House, and you insisted
LXXXI. No. 339.—June 1921

—very flatteringly—that instead of enjoy-
ing the play of the fair spring sunshine
amid the green freshness of the London
parks I should take up my pen and set to
work at once. a 0 0 a

It must be fifteen, or more probably
twenty, years since I crossed the splendid
threshold of Burlington House. I was thus
very curious to discover what changes
might in the meantime have occurred in
English art, or at any rate in those branches
of it special to the Royal Academy. I may
as well admit straightaway that I did not
find very much to surprise me. The sole
fact forced upon me was this : that the big

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