Academy Where All Can Show Pictures

Chronicle (Levin), 12 May 1949, Page 5

Academy Where All Can Show Pictures

Received Wednesday, 7 p.m. LONDON, May 11. On a convenient wall in Victori.) Embankment Gardens, London, •r.i "open air academy" is now on displa.. to the publie. There is no selectioii eommittee — any artist sufficiently li termined to sit or stand all night in . queue so as to be in time to claim on of the 60 hanging spaces, is free to exhibit. The works show great range an 1 versatility, One 24-year-old Indiat! girl student exhibited a striking por trait of an Indian fakir and a 25-year old South Afriean girl student secured n plaee for a fine study of a Malay head. Two leading exhibitors are probably George Hann, who has for a number of years been reeognised as an accomplished painter of London scenes, and an itinerant Scottish painter "Seottie" Wilson, whose work wataken up with considerable acclairn some years ago by leading art criticwho approve the modernist schoo!. Wilson has tramped the country foi many years selling his pain(ings and organising one-man exhibitions of hwork'. The youngest exhibitor was a seven-year-old boy who admitted to thi new chairman of the L.C.C. Parks Com tnittee, Mrs. Hugh Dalton, when s'nt opened the show, that he had playe'J truant from school.