EMPIRE ART WORKS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 273, 17 November 1936, Page 10

EMPIRE ART WORKS.

OBJECT OF EXHIBITION. INVITATION TO ARTISTS. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Monday. „ connection with the proposed . mpfre art exhibition in London during tne Coronation period, the Under-Secre- ; ° Internal Affairs recently received j nrlvic;™ /if 1 ? m S h Commissioner S - T ®c Royal British and L f !\r° Cle y Artists proposed to bold in May an exhibition in London of contemporary works of art from a li parts of the British Empire.. A request was made that a committee be set up in New Zealand to brine* the matter under the notice of the Dominion artists, and organise the matter to this end. The Association of New Zealand Art Societies has advised the Government that it is agreed to act. as agent and do its best to further t'-^-project. Art societies will be asked to submit selected works of artists for final selec-' tion by a committee appointed ;>y the- 1 association. The idea of the promoters of the exhibition is that the interest of societies of artists rather than of national galleries shall be enlisted.