IN THE PUBLIC MIND.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 212, 8 September 1927, Page 6

IN THE PUBLIC MIND.

ARTISTS IN SYDNEY.

DEMAND FOR GOOD WORK,

{To the Editor:}

In last night's "Star* | m Robert Johnson. «IH' of three lf»wj jv»LJ* t ' Nctiffx. Johnson, Weeks and Mobj-aAm*! l ' formerly vfcndied in Auckland end ° Auckland »** ideuta fail to appreciate tjmfo'' men, ha« held a very successful oddSST 1 ? Sydney, at which he *ola C7Sitili of paintings «»ut of £$m woitk which muM. l»e very gratifying artist and hi* friends, ihwcvcr, « aa*!? i« merle jo the f>aragrnf>h hi saying jjSTi the most successful one-man show fold Mr. Sydney Thompson, * native ©f Cain*i2!l!; and now * painter in FVanoe, *h© Ma'' exhibition in Auckland at whith hard)? a»v£!' attended, although it was five, and ''"}'.' here £*e»0 worth of pictures, took tins aJT der to Sydney, where in one week h.^!!' jC3«W worth. While in Sydney attended a one-man show >iy Wflj *,atj the Adelaide painter, easily the best laao*» jointer, exocf>t Sid Loup.'at present «voiij£ in Australia, and he sold from tea when the show opened, to two, when tte! £150 worth. Tnese ware hut a the picture* on exhibition. They wet* '>', bi#b-prioßd, and all the pictures were J, within two days. 1 hasten to explain thm the work was a« good as could he sect) at ti,,, host sbows in London, lest *on» Anekkwu fbould think that one has only to go to to find a gold mine, SYDNEY VTSfJSR'