Among those present at the official inspection of the National. Art Gallery and Dominion Museum, Wellington, was Mr Sydney L. Thompson. Mr Thompson, who is at present engaged on a painting of Wellington Harbour —a Harbour Board gift to the National Art Gallery—expressed the view that the new gallery was a wonderful achievement for New Zealand. “As far as I can recall, Ido not think there is any city with 1.000,000 inhabitants in Europe which has so fine a gallery,” he said. “Of course that excludes the larger cities, such as Paris, Berlin, Rome and Florence, but there are many much larger cities than Wellington on the Continent which do not possess such a fine modern gallery as this one. It ought to mean a good deal to art —I sincerely hope it will,”
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Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21734, 17 March 1936, Page 10
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