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Frank Rutter Quotes

1876–1937

Francis Vane Phipson Rutter (17 February 1876 – 18 April 1937) was a British art art critic, curator and activist.

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Hullo! What's this? What are these funny brown-and-olive landscapes doing in an impressionist exhibition? Brown! I ask you? Isn't it absurd for a man to go on using brown and call himself an impressionist painter?

Where, oh where was Mr. Roger Fry in 1905, and why was his voice not heard in the land? How could he allow anybody to call Cézanne an "amateur" with impunity?

That, by the accident of an illegality in the codicil to his will, it should have been possible for Hugh Lane's pet collection to be snaffled by the British Government, is a fitting conclusion to the shabby story of England's appreciation of French impressionist painting.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Frank Rutter (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.