Sir-Though most appreciative to hear the suggestions put forward by Frances Hodgkins’s brother, I differ in part with his opinion. . Frances Hodgkins’s early work is of no consequence’ and would be of little or no use to the public if it were exhibited, for it represents an outlook which the artist had outgrown at the cost of such great pains as only Frances Hodgkins knew. The achievements in her later work speak of such relentless self-criticism and conscience that I am left with no doubts as to the integrity of every single painting which passed the artist’s later judgment of fire, even if it was to heat the room up on a very cold day. From her early work the public would gain nothing more than the assurance that at home Frances Hodgkins was a homely girl, who painted landscapy landscapes and flowery flow-er-pieces, just as nice as the ones they see from year to year. May fate spare us from the interference of well-mean-ing and most respected relatives when we -can no longer speak for ourselves.
THEO
SCHOON
(Christchurch).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 516, 13 May 1949, Page 5
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