OFFICIAL OPENING

Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 109, 1 February 1941, Page 6

OFFICIAL OPENING

Many People At National

Art Gallery

The National Art Gallery, Buckle Street, with its lofty ceilings and handsome surroundings, is an ideal meeting place for lovers of art. and the hall was crowded last night for the ofliciaopening of a new collection of facsimile colour reproductions of famous paintings. The paintings were presented by the Carnegie Corporation of New York. Dr. A. D. Carbery declared the collection open in the absence of Mr. D. A. Ewen, chairman of the management committee of the National Art Gallcrj. Nearly all the women present wore handsome evening ensembles, sometimes adding furs or a ligrht fur wrap. A few of the younger girls and some others were in short pretty frocks of silk or sheer’ and one young visitor seemed to echo the Flemish influence on painting by wearing a' colourful gathered long skirt mid jumper in deep blues and adding a saffron high swathed turban and dutch sandals to complete her ensemble. The official party consisted of Lady Shirtcliffe, Dr. Carbery. Mr. E. Hunt, Mr. and Mrs. T. D. H. Hall, Mr. 11. C. McQueen, Mr. A. B. Thompson (Auckland), Mr. E. Gore, Mr. F. H. Bass, Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Fearn. Among those present were Mrs. I. Fraser, Miss Mary Butler, Miss Margaret Butler, Mrs. Sprott, Mrs. E. W. G. Coleridge, Mrs. P. B. Cooke. Mrs. Duff Daysh, Mrs. Charles Todd. Mr. C Todd, Mrs. E. E. Dillon,Mrs. James Bennie, Miss Mary Seaton, Mrs. W. Duncan, Mr. Nugent "Welch, Mr. Clere, Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Baker, Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Gray, Mr. and Mrs. W. Basil Honour, Mr. and Mrs. Sinclair Thompson, Mrs. Coventry, Mrs. A. E. Boys, Mrs. J. W. M. Harrison. Miss Lucy Nelson, Mr. Robin Cook. Mr. and Mrs. 11. Vickermiin, Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Waghorn, Dr. Robert Stout. Mrs. T. P. Fotheringham, Dr. and Mrs. J. R. Simpson, Dr. and Mrs. T. Corkill, Mrs. Louis Hayward, Miss Vera Dawson, Miss Smiley, Miss Patricia Gledhill, Miss Marie Gledhill, Miss Nedra McDonald, Mrs. Walter McKinnon, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Tustin, Miss Peggy Tustin, Mrs. D. Rodie, Miss Mollie Rodie, Mrs. Gilman, Mrs. M. Whitt, Mr. J. Tattersail. Mr. J. Gillen, Miss Tui Anderson, Miss Pam Alexander, Miss Dorothv Buck, Miss Duffy Davis. Miss G. Plimmer, Mr. E. Anscombe, Mrs. Penlington.