The Archive · 1921

Art Exhibition in Shanghai

Western Pictures by Chinese Artists: Some Paintings Successful and Otherwise

Probably the most interesting thing in Shanghai to-day is an art exhibition by Chinese. Such an exhibition where only works in the Chinese conventional style are exhibited attracts little attention from.the majority of foreigners, few outside connoisseurs thinking it worth while attending, but where paintings in the recognized Westera style are hung the position is very different. Such is the case to-day, and that is why special attention is called to this present display.

The exhibition in question is given by the Pegasus Society, a body of local Chinese artists, and it is housed in Bubbling Well Road, opposite the Race Course and a few doors west of Arts and Crafts. There are two sections under the auspices of the Society, one devoted to the Chinese style, but the other purely foreign. It is this part of the exhibition, which opened on Thursday which interests

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