Letters, Jun. 21, 1948

Across-the-Channel Sway

Sir:

Allow me to commend you for your article on Augustus John [TIME, May 31].

I believe, however, that there was one . . . error. One sentence reads: "For half a century now, he has been working right across the Channel from Picasso and Matisse, and yet he has never been swayed an inch by the powerful influence of those moderns' magnetic brushes."

Surely you mean that "for half a century, Matisse and Picasso have been working right across the Channel from John and have never been swayed an inch by the...

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