DUNEDIN PAINTER

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 82, 3 October 1929, Page 20

DUNEDIN PAINTER

SUCCESS IN AUSTRALIA

,(By Telegraph.) (Special to "The Evening Post.")

DUNEDIN, This Day. Scores of tho best-known Australian artists entered for a competition promoted recently by the Stato Theatre, Sydney, with tho co-operation of , the "Sun," and nine money prizes wore awarded. The first prize of £300 was gained by Mr. Charles Wheeler, who belongs to n Dunedin family, his father bciug Mr. J. E. Wheeler, teacher of navigation. :

Mr. Charles Wheeler studied in the Molbourno National Gallery. Ho learned to paint uudor Mr. Bernard Hall, and has made his name in figure work. Ho servod four and a half years in France during the war and won tho D.C.M. His winning picture is a fullleagth. study of the nude.

The judges were Mr. Sydney Tire Smith (presidont of. the-Society-.of Artists), Mr. W. Lister Lister (president of the Eoyal Art Society), Mr. C. Lloyd Jones, and Mr. Stuart F. Doyle. Thoy selected 400 pictures for tho final examination before making their aw.ards. Miss Mary Edwards, of Sydney, won the second prize of £150.