Sir,-Her brother and the Canterbury Art Society are surely right in thinking it would be unjust to his sister and to the New Zealand public to show some of her more modern work in ‘New Zealand. The public should be protected
from such "hopelessly poor results" and the Government should not allow them to be brought into the country. Her brother, at this distance and with such opportunities for seeing her work, knows much better than the London critic who concluded a long article "up to a few months before her death she was painting better than she had ever painted." Nor should we be misled by the other London critic who claimed she was the "best woman painter ever to have lived in England." If there is any truth in such a claim it is only for the reason that so few of New Zealand woman painters have ever had the opportunity of living in England. In this nation of great painters the expatriate Frances Hodgkins was but a pigmy, and the same can be said of that over-rated cartoonist, David Low.
R.
P.
(Wellington).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 516, 13 May 1949, Page 5
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