ART STUDIES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 33, 9 February 1937, Page 7

ART STUDIES.

N.S.W. COLLECTION. NOW LENT TO AUCKLAND. MAHT FAMOUS PAINTERS. Containing works by some of the world's best known artists, the loan exhibition of pictures from the National Art Gallery of New South Wales, which is to be exhibited in the city, should attract considerable attention. The pictures. 14S in number, are from the permanent collection of the Xew South Walts Oallery, and they are being lent to the Auckland Gallery after a period in the Xational Art Gallery of Wellington. They are at present being unpacked and the opening date of the exhibit ion, which will last about a month, will be announced shortly.

The catalogue contain* 21 painting bv Euro,.tan and 2.'. hv Australian artists: oO water-colours I Australian and European). 2:t drawing, and 27 print*. It is fully representative ,if Australian pictorial art ami r-ontains nn equal proportion a Uo of work by British and Continental ar'Ut*. Anmnj., t ] l<? J? r jti-h ?roup is -UVdded." i,y Lo-d Leigi,. n , 1.R.A.. f.iio of the mo-t popular painting-, ever reproduce-!. whiUt in tile \u<tralmn 1t..,,;. i- the landscape "Cre morno Pastoral." by sir Arthur Mreeton. and a nmiVr of portrait* in.hidintr e\amtilc« ~? tho work of ti.» lalo <:. W. Lamliert. A.R.A.. Sir .1< ],ji Longstaff and W. B. Mdnne*s. Famous Names. A nniiilier nf fam<m« n; ,m<-< arc included in the 1a,,.!-.-.,,* .Mi,.,,. .Tohn I). Mm,-.-. Klioth firmer and Sid Lonj Iwinv pmliablv tlx- l H -st known. Anvil".* Iho Kiiropcan oik are work* by |)avi<l 1;.,1«. r i-.. R.A. Sir f. - <'«r2f Sir .In],-., Lavcrv Sir Alfred Erst. A. I. Mmnin-s. fla-ton la Tour-be. Ht-rman lUt-hir and Mark r isher. The water-colonr ser-tion is equally rich in namp« with the works of tVp fojlnwins artists outstnrHni"Aiijriißtus John. Rone. Sir 1). V. Camrron. CeraM Brookhnr«t. and William WaVot. There is also a very riHi Australian wal—oolour section, with e\amnlc* of th* work of Conrad >lartens. Xorm->n Lim!say. Charles Conder. Bluniir* Yoime T J. Hilder. Ha..s H?v*» n . Thea Procfc and Marparet Sherwood.

The i-olWotinn i- a rcniarkHlily fin? one. ami i- m:i«l<- availaUf u< N'<?« Zealand only l>»M-aiit-f ..f tlw i;nl that tJif New South \Valc~ (Jallrrv at pres<'iit witli a imiiili-r of ovfrsen? i-\liil>ition* aii'l ha-I inu-nded *t«.rinj: it* jXTmanent collection, of which the** pictures form part.