Alfred James Munnings
(British, 1878–1959).




A Female Nude Seated at Julian’s Atelier, Rue du Dragon (1902).
The Sir Alfred Munnings Art Museum.

Munnings believed that much of modern art was a confidence trick on the public and not based on what he considered to be essential virtues of craftmanship and hard work and his simply expressed view -

“What are pictures for? To fill a man’s soul with admiration and sheer joy, not to bewilder and daze him.”

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