Studio: international art (84.1922)

FIFTIETH LIVERPOOL AUTUMN EXHIBITION

" KELP BURNERS." WATER-
COLOUR BY LUCIEN SIMON

(Lent by Walter Bain, Esq.)

There are other, but too few other,
moderns who spare us " that downward
feeling," who can maintain an equilibrium
against Pre-Raphaelitism, Whistler, Edwin
A. Abbey, Anders Zorn (beautiful Ols
Maria), or Joseph Crawhall. 0 0

The major part of the old work shown
is of the household word type, but some
discoveries are possible—Fred Walker's
The Toilet, daintiest of water-colours, and
Albert Moore at his gravely decorative
best in The Quartette, for instance. W.
L. Windus and William Huggins were
sons of Liverpool, which loved them not.
For this reason the Liverpool school died
young. In Morton before Claverhouse and
Forest King Asleep we see their respective

powers. Windus was a romanticist, Huggins
a king of animal painters—peace be to
them ! They have been long enough dead
to be loved, even in their own town.
Both have that brilliant quality of paint
presem in such works as Madox Brown's
Lear and Cordelia : a quality reminiscent of
the Van Eycks, and deadly to the suet
pudding " lumim'sts " hanging near them.

In justice to modernity it must be
remembered that we have here only the
productions of one recent year, to stand
against the best old years created : and
one year's productions by one school at
that. For though, spurred on by critics
who dubbed former shows " unrepre-
sentative," the committee have shiverfully

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