ART TREASURES IN WELLINGTON
£15,000 WORTH AT
ACADEMY
In connection with the establishment of a National Art Gallery, in Wellington, it is interesting to learn something of the art treasures which will, form the nucleus of the collection that will one day grace the walls of the new. and commanding edifice to be erected on the Mount Cook site.
The pictures, etc,, now in the Art. Gallery in Whitmore Street, are valued, at a very low estimate,, at about £15,000. About half of them are the property of the Government, and half are the property of the New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts. The academy proposes to hand over to the National Gallery the whole of the permanent collection of paintings and other works of art in its possession, so that, together with the Government’s collection, there will be no mean array for the new gallery, which, no doubt, will expand with the passing of the years, and the increased appreciation of art that must follow the establishment or a national gallery..
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 194, 18 May 1928, Page 3
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172ART TREASURES IN WELLINGTON Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 194, 18 May 1928, Page 3
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