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Logic of Living Systems Contemporary Art The Historic Whitman Tom Driberg's Hannen Swaffer Soviet Government in Law and Practice Pakenham, KG Goethe and Lessing Max Weber: Political and Social Influences At the Pictures Pope John The Scientific Society Dickens in Italy Lord Longford Against The Grain Chatterton, The Marvellous Boy Vita Sackville-West on the Footlight Parade Judgement of Judges The Foreign Legion Strachey's Eminent Victorians Life with Brendan Peter Quennell's Eng Lit From Ypres to Cambrai The American Presidency Graffiti Mandelstam: Russian Poet and Philosopher Wyndham Lewis: Self-Expression v Reality Poe's Comic Tales Tantra Dress, Art and Society Scott of the Antarctic Doctine of Feminism The Peasants Revolt The Teachings of Gurdjieff The Greek Experiment The London Scene Experience of Man Cities and Garden Cities Tom Trollope Remembers John Heath-Stubbs. Gold Medallist Things That Go Splash in the Lake Sinister Harvest Rites American in London John Berryman British Cars in the Forties Two Deaths in Wartime Sean Treacy: A Kind of Autobiography The Rachel Papers Failure in Palestine
'An accent on Ethel Walker' (part of the Distinguished British Paintings exhibition) is a display that earns for Roland, Browse and Delbanco, Cork Street, a reputation as a gallery that speaks with an impeccable accent. Ethel Walker was born in Edinburgh in 1861, an eccentric who wore mannish clothes, had a resonant masculine voice, a passion for mongrels — and an impressionistic style of painting that is superficially soft-focus, but penetratingly perceptive. At first glance they look fussy and pretty pictures, but each brush stroke counts and the show obliges a reappraisal of a relatively unappreciated artist who took sixty-six years to have her first solo show in 1927.
The theme in Neil Dallas Brown's paintings and drawings at the Piccadilly Gallery, also in Cork Street, seems to be animal 'husbandry' of one sort or another. A series of pictures of a nude girl, or at least parts of a nude girl with an animal — dog, cat, wolf maybe — hovering nearby or sometimes ambiguously entangled stimulates initial interest, but the mystery is never redeemed by any deeper feeling than the foggy green colouring is able to engender; and that gets a little tiresome after a few minutes spent trying to make out what is going on. Woman's best friend?
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