N.Z. ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS

Press, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 26716, 28 April 1952, Page 2

N.Z. ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS

EXHIBITS BY WOMEN Women exhibitors will be prominent in the autumn exhibition of the New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts, which will be opened on Friday at the National Art 'Gallery, Wellington. Canterbury women artists who will be represented at the exhibition will include Rata Lovell-Smith, who will show a still life and a Wairarapa landscape, and Ivy Fife, who will show two oil paintings of scenes at Cass, one of Mount Torlesse and one of small boats on the slips. Rona Fleming, also of Christchurch, will be represented by an oil painting of Lyttelton harbour and another of a West Coast lagoon. Mrs Airini Vane will show four New Zealand landscapes and a Cyprus scene, and Esther Hope will snow three South Canterbury landscapes. Miss Rosemary Eley, Government House, who spent a long painting holiday last year in the Pacific Islands, will show three oils, two being studies of Tahitian children and the third a still life of the banana flower. Nelson will be represented among women painters by Marjorie Naylor, a regular exhibitor. One of her pictures is a portrait of Mr George Nordstrom, of Nelson, who himself will show a small water colour, “ReperJ? ry ’," Enga Washbourn (Mrs Gerald Goulter, Nelson) will show two water colours of Nelson landscapes.