SOME CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS. By Frank Rutter. (Leonard Parsons. 6s. net.)
Mr. Rutter's is the fourth of " the contemporary series " published by Leonard Parsons, Ltd., in which novelists and poets have already been " dealt with." We now have the volume on artists. As a popular exposition of the condition of contemporary English painting, Mr. Rutter's book is at least insufficient in range. The selection which he has made is not, as he hopes in the introductory chapter, " repre- sentative and symptomatic of the varied ideals which animate British painting to-day." He has, out of all judgment, chosen to bestow equal attention and almost equal praise on third-rate journalists in paint and some of our most sincere and able artists, and he has ignored the whole group of painters that march under the flag of Mr. Roger Fry and hang their trophies in the Independent Gallery—and elsewhere.
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