THE MUNNINGS EXHIBITION
SIR,—In denigrating the art of Sir Alfred Mun- nings to the extent of a full column in your issue of March 23 Mr. Basil Taylor shows that his second thoughts were not for the best. His criticism amounts to little more than a state- ment of personal dislike. Had he summarily disrnissed the exhibition at Burlington House, as he was first inclined to do, he might well have prevented hordes of people from visiting it. That would seem to have been his aim. But his arguments are so contradictory that they may produce a quite other effect. To blame Sir Alfred for a 'meagre drabness of colour' and then for colour effects 'as unsubtle as a bit of herbaceous bedding'; to write of the art of Stubbs as 'serious and bewildering virtuosity' and, a few lines further on, as 'a simple, limited and unambitious technique,' is to leave readers so bewildered that they may have to decide to go and see for themselves.—Yours faithfully,
THOMAS BODKIN
259 Hagley Road, Birmingham, 16
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