ART LOVER ABROAD.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 268, 11 November 1937, Page 8

ART LOVER ABROAD.

LONDON'S GALLERIES.

DR. E. B. GUNSOK'S IMPRESSIONS

Some of his impressions of art life and standards in London as he had seen them during his recent visit were given memlje.ra of the Auckland Art Society at their luncheon to-day by Dr. E. B. Gunson in a discursive and informal talk on the subject, after he had expressed his pleasure at finding the society's activities had increased greatly on the lay side in the period in which he had been away. It was an advance, he said, on which he felt bound to congratulate the president and bis committee.

At the outeet.br. Gunson outlined the policy of the ,&Byal British ami Colonial Society of Artists, ae it had been explained to him in London, of holding a series of exhibitions in London for the promotion of colonial art. It might be that this society would also sponsor in New Zealand late in 1938 a show of contemporary British artiete. and it was proposed to stage a series of exhibitions in London of colonial artiets—Canada, South Africa, Australia, India and New Zealand, one eouutry each year.

The various points of interest he found in the course of doing the rounds of the small art exhibitions which are part of the routine life of London, the place ho conceived the attract artists to hold in the art life of Britain, the people of interest to artists he had come in touch with, and some big «|>ecial shows such as an exhibition of Constables—these formed points of a highly iiiteiestin r talk. Dr. Oiinson added tha't the impression he had got from viewing an extensive exhibition of contemporary British art wae that there was much of it not greatly in advance of a section to be found in our Xew Zealand exhibitions. That was one of the encouraging features of his study of the London galleries, though some of the larger shown, such aa the Tate and Suffolk galleries, were subjects for profound wonder.