Eric Newton

Eric Newton, who was born in 1893 near Manchester, returned from the 1914-18 war determined to be an artist, but only succeeded in turning himself into a craftsman (in mosaic). He has spent the rest of his life learning that his creative powers lag considerably behind his appreciative equipment and has become, in consequence, an art critic and an art historian. He is not unaware that unless enthusiasm is based on knowledge, art criticism becomes an unpalatable mixture of gush …