OBITUARY.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 3, 5 January 1927, Page 7

OBITUARY.

MR. AMBROSE McEVOY, A-R.A. (Received 1 p.m.) LONDON". January 4. The death is announced of Mr. AmbroM McEvoy, the well-known artist, aged 4S years. Mr. Ambrose McEvoy, a prominent member of the newer generation of artists, studied at the Slade School. H« was a member of the New English Art Club, International Society of Painters, National Portrait Society, etc., and elected an A-R-A. in 1924. Among the galleries which have acquired his worka are the Tate Gallery, the Luxemburg Gallery, the Municipal Gallery of Johannesbursr. etc. Mr. McEvoy was one of a group of pupils of Legros. which included Strang, Furse and Orpen. The "Guide to the National Gallery" describes McEvoy as a '-greatly gifted manipulator of oil paint, whose work has at times the nervous lightness of Gainsborough's brush and whose perfect workmanship is often combined with rare charm and poetie beautv."'

The grace and charm ox women have never been more delightiully painted, than bv Ambrose McEvoy. a painter who began in the careful but artistic manner of the Dutch painters. There is beautiful quality in his earlier work, with its atmosphere of quiet melancholy and its refined painting of still-life, and he had a nice sense of textures.