AUSTRALIAN ART.

Mataura Ensign, 18 March 1909, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN ART.

♦ HONORING A "PIONEER." BI TtECTBIC TELEUBAFII COTIRMHT. m UNITED FBSSb ASSOCIATION. deceived March IS, S a.m. LONDON, March 17. At a banquet tendered to Mr Bertram SlacKennal, the Australian sculptor (whose recent bust of Sir William Howard Russell was so highly eulogised), the guests included a number of Australian ex-Governors und artists. Lord Tennyson (an ex-Govcriior-Geu-eral of the Commonwealth), who presided, referred to Mr MacKenual as tho pioneer of a noble individual Australian art yet to arise which would be the glory of the Commonwealth and leinvigorato British art. Mr MacKenual, in reply, said tho mystery of tho Australian bush and its vast silences and distances would somo day inspire a groat art effort. Tho establishment of the Federal capital would afford an opportunity to create a monument to federation proving this generation's, full belief in tho greatness of tho nation yet to come.