REOPENING GREAT GALLERY
Dominion troops owe a debt of gratitude to the director of our National Gallery, who has maintained an exhibition all through the ■war (says a writer in the London -.Daily Mail,' referring to the reopening of the gallery in general now that the art treasures are no longer endangered by air warfare). It was important that oversea soldiers e-nould have the opportunity of seeing isomo of that Bno British art of the eighteenth century which in portraiture is so knit up with the history of the foundation of out Empire. The director is, of all people in London, the most keenly alivo to the urgency of giving as nvany Dominion visitors as possible a chance to see the greatest treasures of our national coilection. But there are difficulties to be surmounted, arising chiefly from shortage of labor, before certain well-loved masterpieces can bo returned to the walls. Then there are acquisitions which the public have never seen. Chief among them the naively beautiful Madonna and Child, by Masaccio, father of that great Florentine school which is represented in our National Gallery as nowhere else outside of Italy.
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Evening Star, Issue 16993, 15 March 1919, Page 5
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190REOPENING GREAT GALLERY Evening Star, Issue 16993, 15 March 1919, Page 5
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