ENCOURAGING ART

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 32, 7 February 1923, Page 4

ENCOURAGING ART

„, The generous gift made fey Sir Harold Beattc'hamp to assist ihe' establishment of a National. Art Gallery in: Wellington is in a form admirably calculated t6' thepurpose" of the donor. It is s'iiipii-! late'd that the returns frorrj aii investment now valued at £5000 or £fjOOO shall be added iii ffie principal until there is a capital sum of £10,000. Thfeteafter. the interest is to be ap'plieid to the piirch'dse' of pictures for tKe Dominion Aft Gallery. By this arrangement the Boistrd of Science jind Art will Have an annual sum of about £500; and ■this money will assist greatly in increasing the' national art collection and fostering. & love 6f art. . Apart from.the intrinsic value of the gift, the Board of Science and Art has reason to be griteful to' Sir Harold Beauchamp ,f6r setting io tiin&ly an example. Sitch gifts as this and the recent dnb'tiymou'S donation of a. valuable collection of Van der Velden paintings dp much' to" bring nearer the day when there will be a wo'i-ihy DonTiiriion Gallery for the display of art treasures, for years a small band of citizferis has been working quietly to' obtain 1 such a gallery, and Sir Harold Beaii; champ's announcement of his gift is especially opportune, because it will give practical erikdriragemeht, and, let us hop.c, will revive interest iri a project which Has riot hit'hei'tp fe't'tivM m public iupp'bft which it deserves.