PICTURE PURCHASES

Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 275, 16 August 1932, Page 8

PICTURE PURCHASES

Grants to Arts Academy MACARTHY TRUST FUND In the report he presented at the annual meeting of the Board of Governors of the T. G. Macarthy Trust yesterday morning, the Public Trustee, Mr. J. W. Macdonald, reported that during the past three years sums totalling £5OO had been granted to the New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts for the purchase of pictures. Information had been received from the council of the Academy of Fine Arts that the following pictures had been purchased with the sums received“ Portrait of the late T. G. Macarthy, Esq.,” Archibald F. Nicoll; “Blue and Silver,” Algernon Talmage, R.A.; “The Spit, Middle Harbour, Sydney,” Robert W. Johnson; “Roses,” M. O. Stoddart; portrait, “May, Daughter of Brigadier-General Andrew, C.M.G.,’’ Elizabeth Kelly; “Study of a Boy’s Head,” G. Linley Richardson, R.8.A.; “In the Trees,” William Tiller; “From Ball Hut,” M. 0. Stoddart; “Forty Winks,” James Cook, All the works were being labelled with an inscription indicating the source of the funds from which they have been purchased, thereby creating a Macarthy collection to be handed over to the national collection in due course. It might be mentioned that prior to the period of three years referred to, donations totalling £l5BO were granted to the Academy by the Board of Governors, the total amount granted since the inception of the trust thus being £2OBO. The board recently requested that the name of the late Mr. Macarthy should be identified with the pictures purchased with the grants, and the action now taken by the trustees of the Academy Is In response to that request.