ART SOCIETY'S EXHIBITION.

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 12497, 7 May 1906, Page 3

ART SOCIETY'S EXHIBITION.

| PRESENTATION' OF MEDALS.

i A largo number of people took their I final look at the Canterbury Art I Society's Exhibition in the Art Gallery 'on Saturday night. Tnckknt.nl nmsia ; enhanc-d tho ]>k->uMi]'e of tho visit, and jiho president, Dr Jennings, expressed | his satisfaction with (he Exhibition. and I hopes tor the future in a fdiort speech . which he made before presenting medals | and prizes. On the opening night, ho i said, (ho society had promised ono of ! the host exhibitions that had ever liecn I .seen in New Zealand, jlihl he was sure lit would he admitted, and in fact the j iiiKU-ckil reMilLs proved, that the exhij hiii-on had li-s'ii as good a> w.-'K promised, lie though; 'da' everyone who had been ;it had spokf n well of it, and apprrenH- ' , tion had not lieen confined to words, for j j more pictures hud Immi .sold this 'year I j than ever before. Thero wa.s nothing . which iso much encouraged artists to ! jKiint- ,'i.s tli(> (-.ale of their pictuiTis—it I was not that (hey wauled to paint "pot- ; iKiileiis," but they desired to know that | their pictures would lie bough!. This j year all the best pictures had Ix>en pur- ! eluused, so that they could he qnil»> sure that- the artw.s would go on painting. T/sist year and the year before the -society had given prizes to school children for tho bust essays on a visit lo the exhibition, but although (he compositions whicli eanie forward contained h great deal leading up to tlie gallery, and a great deal about leaving it, thero was very little about the gallery itself. Thi.s did not prom tea to do much, to foster j a love of art, and this year prizes had • been given instead for a drawing com- : portion, the results of which wero very ' creditable to the successful children. | The -attructions of the International XxI hiliition would not prevent the Art Soc- ! iety Exhibition being held next y<ar, j though it would fake place a month ; later. Thanks were expressed to tho i ladies and gentlemen who had given J ruu-iral assistance during the cxhibij tion'fs progress. | ]>r J< linings then presented medals and ! -prices ats fellows: —Silver medal, Mrs i Rogers, siudy from nadne in oils; '. bronze medal, Mis K. WaymouHi, 'areh'tu-iurn"! sketches; bronze medal, Mr Leary (Dunedin), figure drawing. School Children's Drawing Competition—\V. \ Ikivei-sfock (Richmond) 1, Olive Sharp (R.mgioi-a) 2, Ponlington (West Chrietj church) 3. I