ART EXHIBITION.
In Mr. Nevill-Smith's exhibition o£ water-colours at Baton's Gallery, the pictures, mostly from Old Mexico and Arizona, are aglow with liquid sunshine and strong colour. In the Arizona views the1 light" is suffused by a certain rosy mistiness, doubtless caused by the dust in the atmosphere. Trees and vegetation in both regions are fantastic in shape and warm in colour, and their -flamboyant, decorative effect is well portrayed by the artist, as indeed - are the graceful curves and varjegated hues of the palms in. the Pacific Islands. In contrast, to. .the strong, fierce lights of those northerir regions is the bright, iridiscent, butjgofter, colouring of sea and sky in the Pacific depicted by the painter with an efficient sympathy, v ■ ■ ■
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 106, 7 May 1931, Page 6
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122ART EXHIBITION. Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 106, 7 May 1931, Page 6
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