LOAN COLLECTION OF PICTURES

Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21122, 24 March 1934, Page 14

LOAN COLLECTION OF PICTURES

| GUARANTEES BEING SOUGHT i j EXHIBITION IN CHRISTCHL'RCH I'OSSI IM.K 1 in suiiicicnt guarantees can be ; secured the loan colled ion of British pictures, representing art of the last ! 70 years, will be shown in ChristI church. Mr W. Basil Hcnour, secre- | tary to the New Zealand Society of | Artists, lias commenced a canvass for i guarantees and has obtained two generous ones and a number of smaller ones from Christchurch citizens. The cost of securing the pictures and running the exhibition will be more than iZ2OO. 1 The lu.ui collection will be sent i 10 .New Zealand and Australia by j the Empire Art Loan Collections | ! Society of London, which owes its i or it; in In Mr P. K. Sargood. the j , chairman of' the Dunedin Art Gallery, j The original idea was that works of j art and craft work should be obtained on loan from the public sal- \ lories and museums of England, but , tins project had to be dropped be- : cause, of a law in England which pre- ; ; \ents national works from leavng the! , country. 1 Through the generosity of English ! people practically the whole collection i of approximately 250 pictures will be ; sent by private owners. The pictures | will be absent from England for ; about a year, and Mr Sargood has i i given an undertaking that none of i the pictures will be sold, i The society arranging the loan is i a representative organisation, the i committee including the Rt. Hon. i Lord Conway of Allinglon. F.S.A., j Imperial War Museum; Mr Campbell I Dodason. C.8.E.. British Museum; Mr j Marl in liardie. R. 1.. R.E., Victoria and Albert Museum: Mr J. B. Manson, ; National and Tate Gallery; and Mr j Stanley Cursiter. A.R.S.A., National : Gallery of Scotland. Nearly every artist of importance in England will be represented in the exhibition, the collection including paintings by Sir D. Y. Cameron. Sir , Charles Holmes. Sir William Orpen. Sir William Rothenstein. Sir George Clausen. Dame Laura Knight, Professor H. Tonks, Walter Bayes, Gerald Brockhurst, Ro;;cr Fry, Mark Gertlcr, H. Oilman, C. Ginner, Spencer Gore. Duncan Grant. Augustus John, Erick Kennington. Derwent Lees. Ambrose McEvoy. David Muir- , head. John Nash. Paul Nash. Wil- . ■ liam Nicholson. J. S. Peploe, Lucien 1 Pissarro, Charles Ricketts, John S. : Sargent. W. R. Sickert. Wilson Steer. ; J. McNeill Whistler. Muirhead Bone. ] ! Francis Dodd. W. Russell Flint. Mar- , i fin Hardie. James Mcßev, C. R. W. . ! Nevinon. Charles Sims, William ! Strang. Ethelbert White. Frank Bran- ; ; gwyn. and Charles Shannon.