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“.MIGHT BE MISUNDERSTOOD.”
Received April 18, 11.30 a.m. LONDON, April 17
The Koval Society of British Artists has banned Mr Otway McCannel s canvas showing the devil weighing the heads of Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini on the scales of Justice before a shocked audience including His Holiness the Pope, Air Neville Chamberlain and President Roosevelt. The societv requested its withdrawal because “it might be misunderstood in the present state of European affairs.
Mr Otway McConnell, R.8.A., A. R.W.A., is a noted figure and portrait painter, and is principal of the Farnham Art School lie was horn ill 1883 anrl w.i. educated at Nelson College. New Zealand. Tic has won numerous awards and has keen a frequent exhibitor at the Royal Academy. In 1924 he exhibited at t m Academy “The Devil s ( hess-Board. v.l,ic|, aroused much international cont.romt.v He studied at. Kensington and in Italv
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 117, 18 April 1939, Page 7
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