CANADIAN PAINTINGS

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 208, 30 May 1936, Page 26

CANADIAN PAINTINGS

Collection to be Sent On Tour in addition to the collection of English paintings which will be displayed at the opening of the National Art Gallery and Dominion Museum, there is a likelihood that New Zealand will later be given the opportunity of viewing the work of artists in other countries of the Empire. The following letter has been received from the directors of the National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa), giving details of an offer of pictures for next year: — “The Carnegie Corporation of New York is supporting an exchange of art exhibitions between the various Dominions of the British Empire and the United States of America. The first of these was an exhibition of contemporary American painting invited to this country from the National Gallery of Canada in 1934 mid subsequently exhibited in every important city of the Dominion.

“It is now proposed to send an exhibition of Canadian painting, consisting of about one hundred pictures by contemporary artists, first to South Africa and then to New Zealand and Australia. The exhibition will open at

the Empire Exhibition at Johannesburg next September, and will be available for circulation iu the larger cities of South Africa after January 15, 1937. About June. 1937, it is proposed to send the exhibition to Australia for a period of approximately six months, when it will go to New Zealand for whatever period is necessary. “The exhibition will be appropriately catalogued and all expenses of transportation and insurance will be borne by the Carnegie Corporation. As soon as the exhibition is fully organised, a catalogue will be, forwarded to you. In the meantime this preliminary announcement is being sent to you in the hope that, you will be interested in this important movement. “It is proposed that an American exhibition should follow later on, and that travelling exhibitions of Australian, New Zealand and .South African art should be similarly organised in due course. “We feel that this undertaking, so splendidly conceived and so generously supported, is worthy of all possible encouragement, and the National Gallery of Canada is gladly co-operating to the fullest extent, with the Carnegie Corporation to make the venture in every way successful.”