CANVAS BANNED BY ROYAL SOCIETY
INFLUENCE OF EUROPEAN TENSION (Received April 18, 7.10 p.m.) LONDON, April 17. The Royal Society of British Artists has banned Mr Otway McCannell’s canvas showing the Devil weighing the heads of Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini in the scales of justice before a shocked audience, including the Pope, the British Prime Minister (Mr Neville Chamberlain), and the President of the United States (Mr Franklin D. Roosevelt). The society requested the withdrawal “because the picture might be misunderstood in the present state of European affairs.”
Mr Otway McCannell, who is principal of the Farnham Art School, was educated at Nelson College, New Zealand. In 1924 he exhibited at the Academy "The Devil's Chessboard,” which caused much controversy.
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Southland Times, Issue 23796, 19 April 1939, Page 5
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