PAINTINGS BY N.Z. ARTISTS

Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28699, 24 September 1958, Page 8

PAINTINGS BY N.Z. ARTISTS

Two-Day Sale In Wellington “Th? Press” Special Service WELLINGTON, Sept. 23.

Works of some of the outstanding painters in the history of art in New Zealand will be included in a sale to be held in Wellington tomorrow and Thursday. There are two mountain scene water-colours by John Gully, one of the great traditionalists of the Victorian era in New Zealand, whose work is still keenly sought by collectors. J. M. Naim, the Scots painter whose influence in this country at the end of last century was enormous, is also represented. Others in the collection include Sydney Thompson, still painting vigorously in Christchurch though an octogenarian; the late Margaret Stoddart, a fine watercolourist whose work has stood the test of time; C. H. Howarth, a landscape painter with a considerable vogue in his day; J. C. Hoyte. an early colonial artist whose work was exhibited in Auckland recently; and W. A. Bowring. “Moor and Fen” by Lamorna Sirch is a notable example of that splendid painter’s work in his prime, and a fine watercolour painted in Norfolk by Harry Morley came to Npw Zealand in the Murray Fuller collection of 1939 A waterfront impression painted by Nugent Welch in 1904 depicts that phase in his development, and there is an Australian landscape by John Weeks. A landscape on a wooden panel by Sir Alfred East has an inscription in his own hand.