Studio: international art (84.1922)

FIFTIETH LIVERPOOL AUTUMN EXHIBITION

"THE CHARWOMAN." OIL PAINT-
ING BY ALFRED JONNIAUX

admitted the modernist; they have, like
the family of whom George Grossmith
told, shown the entertainer into the
servants' hall—to wit, part of a small
dark room. This seems unkind to a guest;
and Liverpool, like that family, misses
the entertainment. Being hung in this
uncomfortable closet and company has,
in addition, scandalised Mr. Spencer
Watson's Four Loves ; so that lady, child,
horse and dog have taken on a fierce ex-
pression, and only the title remains to
tell us what they were. a a a

At a recent meeting of the architects
who are the great sea city's strongest artistic
hope, the need for education for practi-

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tioners and public was the speakers'
theme. As there is no architecture in the
town's exhibition, architecture is not the
present question. For the education of
the artistic ignoramus this exhibition may
be useless, as, seeing good and bad thus
jumbled together, he will naturally love
the bad : but for the more advanced
public (where such can be found) it may do
good, by shocking the observer out of
weak fancies and forcing upon him a
reverence for the bravest of the brave
and the fairest of the fair. If so, the ex-
hibition's promoters may achieve part at
least of what was their very honestly meant
intention. Jessica Walker Stephens.