THE CIVIL LIST [To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.]
Snt,—I have read your leading article " The Civil List with much melancholy enjoyment. The general attitude towards art and the artist is so succinctly summarised. Herein lies the melancholy.: Can one hope the time will arrive when something is done publicly for those who mainly ask for little and give • much to the cultural wealth of the community ? I have suggested elsewhere that a contri- butory, State-aided, voluntary pension scheme for accredited artists in all categories should • be instituted. It would mean a negligible outlay on the part of the Exchequer but would allow artists full creative freedom without the in- creasingly prevalent paralysing fear of the future. Just a slightly superior old age pension. -Is this too much to expect ?
—Yours faithfully, - GILBERT SOLOMON
Royal Society of British Artists, (Hon. Sec., R.B.A.) Suffolk Street, S.147.1
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