NATIONAL GALLERY

Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 106, 31 October 1936, Page 13

NATIONAL GALLERY

AUSTRALIAN PICTURES

' All interested to. art will; be piea'sed>| to-TeariTiteatthe Australian collection;of pictures- at 'present on view iri tne:-Na-i tionai' Art (Gallery is: to remain in"Wellington for another1 month, that is, untiis the• end bf November. . Tliis exhibition is- undoubtedly,. one of- the most, ihterestihg: and' eompreheiisive- ever' held- in New Zealand*. , ,In: it there are two.: h'lindr'ed^arfd eighfpictures; and- besides a purely' Australian section containing outstanding, examples of painting-' andy .drawing..by the. foremost artists"bf the1 Commonwealth,, there are,, many 'Beau? ti'ful.pictures by painters of the British-. Freiichv, German, Belgian, arid. 'ItaliansdiOols.. " ■ ' ...

■ Lending' an added . interest to ,the' exhibiti'dn. are a. number of. works" by New-Zealandrborri artists who are now resident in! A'usttaliai- those represented1 .in thi& section lieihg' Charles.'Wheeler;, Sepfim'us;. I?ower,.r R.OX,. Lawsoii Bal.fouE,..Maiid. Sherwood1, Albert. Collins, Roland.; , Wakelirij. Robert', Johnson,• ; James-; Jack-son,- Cpdj-ic Savage, the late iWalteu-Bbwring,. and..Frances,,Ellis. A iveny- informative -catalogue, •„illustrated' iin'Tiolouc,. isr obtainable1 at..the; gallery. ! .Ini ■addation l 'tq-..the Australiah. .pic-' turesi, to which many ..visits. are ; needed' it they ape' to be adquately studied',, there is- muchi of interest, to- be seen in the; otheir gallenies. The permanent collection is being rearranged and: addedltoasmore space becomes* available;, and; this; mv itself, contains.- much; to-, interest any- visitor,, embracing as it does..works by famous Hhglish. and Continental, actists-,, as; well-, as by/New. Zealand!', andt Avustmalian . artis.ts who have risen highi in, their profession.. .