PAINTING OF MOUNT COOK.

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20906, 13 July 1933, Page 8

PAINTING OF MOUNT COOK.

PRESENTED TO UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS. The gift to the University of Illinois of a painting, "Mount Ceok at Eventide," by Mr Dunean Darroch, of the Hermitage, is reported i n the "Daily Illini," the student newspaper of the university, of June 11. Giving a reproduction of the painting, the paper says it was preEented for the architecture building of the university by Professor William Trejease, professpr emeritus of botany, and Mrs Trelease. "The painting was secured by the Treleases," the report continues, "during their recent stay at the Hermitage, New Zealand, near the foot of the famous mountain. The artist, Mr Parroch, is a native New ZeaJarjder of Scotch Highland stock, a guide whose avocati9n is painting the mountains around him. Hp is almogt self-taught, and has painted somewhat in the Canadian Rockies and hi? native southern alps. First in United States. "His work is frequently exhibited at home and is not unknown in Europe, but 'Mount Cook at Eventide* is believed tp be the first ot hie canvaues to find a home in the United States. His touch is strong and somewhat impressionistic, but he has an accurate eye for configuration and a kpen eye for colour, "The view of Mount Cook presented in the picture is the aspect of the 12,000 ft mountain as seen from the uppqr Hooker river valley some distance above where the Mueller glacier breaks into the great gjaeial valley sa4 above the terminal n*or<aine of the Hooker glacier."