LESSER-KNOWN BRITISH ARTISTS

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 135, 4 March 1929, Page 10

LESSER-KNOWN BRITISH ARTISTS

SUCCESSFUL EXHIBITION (British Official Wireless.) Rugby, February 28. The report for the past year of the British Artists’ Exhibition, founded by Sir Joseph Duveen, with the object of giving possible purchasers of pictures at home and abroad the opportunity of becoming acquainted with the works of the less known contemporary British artists, has been published. About half a million people have visited exhibitions in Britain, . Italy, Jugo-Slavia, France, Belgium, Argentina, and New York. From the point of view of sales the Atlantic Art Exhibition, held in the liner Berengaria, both on outward voyage to New York and on the return, and also for two days in New York, must, it is stated, be reckoned as one of the most successful, nearly one-third of the total exhibits being disposed of. The report adds: “In, two years the British Artists’ Exhibition movement has developed from a piece of experimental machinery into an organisation. The programme for 1929 is being arranged on the same lines, the principal exhibitions to be held at Liverpool and Glasgow so far as Britain is concerned, while Stockholm in the autumn has been selected as the foreign capital where British art' is to be shown.”