New Director For National Gallery

Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31676, 11 May 1968, Page 17

New Director For National Gallery

(N.I. Press Aiaoeiation)

WELLINGTON, . May 9.

The directorship of the National Art Gal* lery has been awarded to a 45-year-old New Zealander, Mr M. Day, an art historian living in London.

Mr Day is an abstract artist. One of his wdrks, “Old Script,” was bought by the National Gallery in 1966.

Born in Hamilton in 1923, Mr Day attended the Elam School of Art in the 1930* as a part-time, and later a fulltime, student. He graduated B.A. at Victoria University in 1961 and later went to London, where he gained B.A. (honours) in the history of European art

in 1966, after three yean at the Courtauld Institute. Since then he has had considerable experience as a lecturer in art in London, with extensive counes at the Univenlty of London. He has painted extensively In New Zealand and Britain, where he has staged two successful one-man exhibitions at the Commonwealth Institute Gallery, London. In New Zealand he is represented in the National Gallery, and in the Moana Edgar Collection, Dunedin.

The retiring director, Mr S. MacLennan, intends to devote himself full-time to painting. He has been director of the gallery sinee 1948.

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