WELLINGTON ARTIST
Mr. Perkins’s Sydney Visit
EXHIBIT OF PAINTINGS The well-known Wellington artist, Christopher Perkins, returned to Wellington from Sydney .yesterday on the Makura after a most successful three months in Australia. An exhibition of Mr. Perkins’s work will open this week In Sydney to the Macquarrie Gallery. Among the pictures to be exhibited, said Mr, Perkins yesterday, will be three portraits in oils and a number of portrait drawings. Among the subjects are Mr. B. B. Stevens, Premier of New South Wales, Colonel M. Bruxner, Deputy-Premier, and the, AttorneyGeneral, Mr. Manning, nil of whom sat for their portraits. Several New Zealand pictures, including the large work “Maoris at Kaingaroa Plains,” will also be exhibited.
Air. Perkins stated that this picture is intended to be the first of a series of ■similar compositions, which finally are to comprise, in a sequence, a pictorial survey of the North Island. He hopes to devote much time during the next few years to these works.
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Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 220, 13 June 1933, Page 8
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