Perennial butt of many a rebel British artist are the tidy, exclusive shows of the Royal Academy at London's Burlington House. Last month war's leveling influence did what peacetime protests had never donemade an Academy show really representative, also gave it much-needed ginger. At the "all-in" exhibit were 1,270 artists, including such famed newcomers to sedate Burlington House as Jacob Epstein, Wilson Steer, Duncan Grant.
Artistically a success, the show flopped at the box office, sold only $5,328 worth of art in three weeks. Woebegone were British artists, three-fourths of whom have earned nothing since the war began. Irrepressible George Bernard Shaw...
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