EXHIBITION OF PICTURES.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 13830, 6 September 1910, Page 8

EXHIBITION OF PICTURES.

There is now on view- in tho small room of tho Art Gallery a. very excellent collection of pictures—portraits and landscapes principally—by Miss Baldwin Warn and Mks Durrant. Both ladies, it will be remembered, exhibited at the annual exhibition of the Canterbury Art .Society. The portraits arc excellent. There are. three by Miss Warn of well-known Dunedin residents. Miss Chapman, Mr Martin Chapman, and Mr Husking, K.C. In all of these, tho artist ha-s been exceedingly successful, not alono in producing good pictures m> far as the actual technical work is concerned, but also in investing them with character. Usually artists err in tho direction, apparently, of concentrating all their powers en the work alone, and omit to give any lifo to the portrait. This, however, is not the case with the portraits by Miss Warn. Each of them is full of lift-, with tho result that they arc excellent. There is a. portrait of Mr Justice Denniston, which is excellently painted. I:ut somewhat too youthful. Miss Warn also has severaj pictures which were in tho Art Socifty Exhibition, and all ot these aro well wortli inspection. Miss Durrant's portrait of a minister is noticeable for tho excellence of the work in tho details. Tho flesh colouring of the faco is also very good indeed. In the landscape "The Braes o' Balqnidder" the artist has been exceedingly successful in reproducing a charming bit of scenery. The work in the fore ground is vigorous, and the treatment of tho shadows excellent. This picture was hung on the line at the Royal Academy Exhibition. Another landscape which is full of merit is a bit of South Wales. In this the trees aro very artistically painted, and the perspective, with tho sea in the distance, is also very good indeed. In ''Winter on tho Avon, Bristol,"' the artist has been very successful. The trees are well done, .%s also is tho water. "Village in the Dolomites" is noticeable for the artistic colouring. The cottages, with their quaint, oldworld appearance, stand out with much distinctiveness, and the urtist has aleo been very successful in reproducing the peculiar green colour of the glacier water in the small torrent in the foreground. There are a number of other pictures of equal merit to those to which reference has been made, and there is also a small but excellent collection of miniatures. Altogether the exhibition is one well worth a visit. It wiil be. open to the public to-morrow, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, ircm 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.