“THREE BOYS”

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 300, 15 September 1936, Page 8

“THREE BOYS”

Oil Painting For National Gallery * While the British art loan collection was on exhibition at the National Art Gallery the sum of one shilling was charged for admittance by which means a sum of money was raised for the purchase of pictures for the permanent collection. At a meeting of the council of the New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts last evening it was decided to purchase the oil painting “Three Boys,” by B. Fleetwood Walker, R. 0.1., for £315 from the Murray Fuller collection of contemporary British art. This is a rather notable painting, not only for the good modelling, tine flesh tones and excellent composition displayed in the painting of the three boys, but also for the reason that it represents a style new to the permanent collection. Mr. Walker, who was born in Birmingham in 1892, studied at the Birmingham School of Arts and also in London and Paris. He is the art master at the King Edward Grammar School, Birmingham, and is also the master of modelling and composition at the' Aston School of Art. There is still a sum of £425 left for the purchase of other works, but the council decided to postpone the matter of further purchases until the next meeting.