ABSTRACT
Rutter (see headnote to no. I) had championed Post-Impressionism in the columns of the Sunday Times (for which he had been art editor since 1903) and Art News (of which he was editor). His attitude, however, was far less conciliatory than that of Fry and where Fry emphasised the historical continuities of the new art Rutter stressed the iconoclastic, revolutionary aspects of Post-Impressionist painting. Rutter also has warm praise for pointillist painters, praise which was rare in English criticism at this time.
