Studio: international art (82.1921)

CAPTAIN J. AUDLEY HARVEY'S COLLECTION

the followers of long established tradition.
But always he has chosen works which not
only represent well the men by whom they
were produced, but have also a right to be
reckoned as examples of well-conceived and
rightly disciplined effort. Moreover, he
has not hesitated to mix British and foreign
artists, to put Cazin, Boudin, de Bock,
Roelofs, Fortuny and Domingo, for
example, beside the men who are leaders in
the art of this country. Incoherence of this
kind deserves a very sincere welcome ; it
makes the collection a summary and an
expression of the varieties of modern
practice and an instructive commentary on
the broad-minded outlook of the art of
to-day—an outlook, by the way, which the
reactionary modernists are doing their

utmost to destroy. It is the collector with
a comprehensive understanding and with
trained impartiality who provides the best,
because the most practical, safeguards
against the fanatical excesses of the revolu-
tionaries who would bring art back to its
primitive beginnings and throw on to the
scrap-heap the knowledge which has been
accumulated through centuries of progress.

Yet, as has just been said, Captain Harvey
does not ignore the primitives. There is in
his collection a picture, The Mother of
Judas, by Mr. Clive Gardiner, which is
painted with a formal simplicity and a dis-
regard of technical graces that would seem
affected if the artist's sincerity were not so
obvious. Treated as it is, the subject gains
in dramatic effect by the method of its

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"PLOUGHING." BY
G. CLAUSEN, R.A.