BRITISH ART.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 80, 4 March 1929, Page 9

BRITISH ART.

SUCCESSFUL EXHIBITIONS. (British Official Wireless). Received March 4, 9.5 a.m. RUGBY, March 2. The rejiort for the past year of the British Artists’ Exhibition, which was founded by Sir Joseph Duveen with the object of giving possible purchasers of pictures at home and abroad the opjiortunity of becoming acquainted with the works of the less known contemporary British artists, has been published. About half a million people have visited exhibitions in Britain, Italy, Yugoslavia, France, Belgium, Argentine and New, York.

From the point of view of sales the Atlantic Art Exhibition, which was h6ld on the liner Berengaria, both on the outward voyage to New York and on the return, and also for two days in New York, must, it is stated, be reckoned as one of the most successful, nearly one-third of the total exhibits being* disposed of. The rejxirt adds: “In two years the British Artists’ Exhibition movement has developed from a piece of experimental machinery into an organisation. The programme for 1929 is being arranged on the same lines. Th© principal exhibitions are to bo held at Liverpool and Glasgow so far as Britain is concerned, while Stockholm in the autumn has been selected as the foreign cajiital where British art is to be shown.”