MR. HENRY MOORE'S "BREEZY MORNING."
[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In the kindly criticism of my "Breezy Morning," in the exhibition of the Royal Society of Painters in Water-Colours, in the Spectator of May 4th, you speak of its "bold impasto " and "the almost rocky use of flake-white." If this were an unimportant detail, I should pass it by ; but though I leave other men to do as they please as to the use of body-colour, I silently, through my work, advocate its avoidance.
Your reference to Mr. Bulleid's work, "no sponging or scraping, and no body-colour used," describes accurately my own work, for I never resort to any of the three methods sug- gested. To have ever so " faintly " recalled David Cox is gratifying to me, for his work has no sincerer admirer than
39 Maresfield Gardens, FitzJohn's Avenue, N.W., May 6th.
[Our critic was led into his error by the curious effectiveness with which the clouds were made to stand out. We regret the mistake.—En. Spectator.]
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