International studio . ^ THE LATE W. H. DE B. NELSON. NIGHT {Frow ??!nhlrn„•ss?^] ROCKWELLKKX7 THE ROYAL ACADEMY EXHIBI-TION, 1920. 0 a 0 a FOR many years past critics of theRoyal Academy have been accus-tomed to attack it as an obsolete institution,persistently out of touch with modernthought, incapable of progress, and op-posed to all reforms which were likelyto advance the interests and help on thedevelopment of British Art. It is possiblethat there was at one time some justifica-tion for this reproach ; it is possible that ageneration or two ago the Academy wastoo wedded to its earlier tra
International studio . ^ THE LATE W. H. DE B. NELSON. NIGHT {Frow ??!nhlrn„•ss?^] ROCKWELLKKX7 THE ROYAL ACADEMY EXHIBI-TION, 1920. 0 a 0 a FOR many years past critics of theRoyal Academy have been accus-tomed to attack it as an obsolete institution,persistently out of touch with modernthought, incapable of progress, and op-posed to all reforms which were likelyto advance the interests and help on thedevelopment of British Art. It is possiblethat there was at one time some justifica-tion for this reproach ; it is possible that ageneration or two ago the Academy wastoo wedded to its earlier traditions to showmuch sympathy with new ideas ; but itcertainly cannot be said that the BurlingtonHouse policy has undergone no changeduring the last few years. Indeed, any-one who can go back for half a centuryand compare the Academy as it was thenwith the Academy of to-day, must admitthat there have been in it developmentsand alterations of a very definite of remarkably unacademic viewsand methods have been freely admitted to
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