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The Morning Post, 6 April 1929

BRITISH ARTISTS

Royal Society’s 171st Exhibition

WOMEN’S WORK

by Our Art Critic

It may be that one expected too much in too short a time from Mr. Richard Sickert’s influence as President of the Royal Society of British Artists. In any case, there is very little change to be noted in the present exhibition in Suffolk-street, compared with those held before his election.

There is nothing on the walls to “blast with ecstasy,” and much that might be damned with faint praise. But between these two conditions some things are to be found that give considerable pleasure, particularly among the water colours.

Mr. Sickert himself sends only one characteristic picture, which is almost ten years old, and the most striking works come from women. Miss Florence M. Asher’s “Life” (233) arrests at once. It is large and amusing, overcrowded rather than compact in design, naive rather than profound …

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Among the oil paintings by men that deserve mention are those by Mr. Hely Smith, Mr. Alex Maclean, Mr. Leeds Bottomley, Mr. Hesketh Hubbard, Mr. P. A. de Laszlo [10449] …