THE ART EXHIBITION.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVIII, Issue 17794, 30 May 1921, Page 9

THE ART EXHIBITION.

KEEN INTEREST MAINTAINED. MORE NOTABLE Pit Til! EH. NEW Zi: ALAND SCENERY. A ' <v-\ r-,,,,,1 alien.lam c was re m-iled 8; ii" Art NuirtCs exhibition mi huturii:i; ben keen inlore.-l was sin.v. 11 in I "lit ilic work of local artists and in (lie I Lines whuh recently arrived from Enj- , iii.i. Afternoon ion was prn\ ide«| |,\ il,c 1 lie..' comiimi ('. . K' iilrner •>! ih.. n, 1 iiil.-iv.-! t >k, ii 111 t'n, ■ ■■> bib :ii. .11 i* ~.ni hi 1 -.1 in i' l •' f.i. t lh.il 1.3 <.i 1I1." f. 1. M11...S have nl 1 .hi, found pun li.u-.-rs. ii,cm- brnu ;i ]■■'<■• Mutlv of til.: Wink..to River ! I; I-.. B-il. Trevor l.i..\cis " L..v.> •'no „„,] ■ lire l-.T.li-." "E. Spicers 'H.ll 1 I'. . lir.n. • \\ .1. West wood's ' Moiiiin: Mists." I. MrArtliui .. " Two Hon.-. H Pro. tor's " Market in Rome," j \ ■) I. ovil's " Ocean Mail." H. C. l>oi ..-■• Wild Horses Taupo." V. I \\ ri_ i's Last Gleam," ,1. Mailden's j r,...-ii_- Shower, Wakatipn" and "Lake; M.m.ipouri." an.l V. 11. Cuniberworth's | C. 1.11 lord, Charterhouse." In tli, water-colour section the work 1 Wright retains all its customary .harm ami delicacy of colouring. His-I'lh.-i picture is a faithful representation of tlio v..1,i \ve>t .-oast, and there is parti- j Milai'y beautiful atmospheric effc-t in' ri>< " Karlv Morniic', ami : Passim: Shower. Whancarfi." W Mcn/ies Cibh contributes a nuinher , •' sketches in nil and water-colour, amour; the best hein- hw " Mount A.la. Kenne.b 's Rush." and his two sea pieces, j '•Sunrise, Sumner Bar." and "The' Silver Sea." The treatment of sen and j -ky in the latter is very tine. (' N. Worsley is an artist who delights | in the soft, warm atmosphere of Italian' 1 sernew, and his lnrce picture. " Mennqr/eio," shows excellent composition and j beauty of colouring His " Shrine in a Country Lane " will perhaps make stronger appeal than the landscape, the , suggestion of traceiiy in the bowed head I of the trirl at. the .shrine adding an unusnal touch of pathos to the picture. C H. Howorth's two seascapes, I "Land's End. Cornwall," and " Ournard's j Head," are both fine studies, in which ! the distance of a misty horizon is ad- I niirahlv depicted. \dniirers of the work of that veteran artist. Kennett Watson will le glad ho is again exhibiting after a laose of several years. His "Sunrise in the Mountains "is colourful ?nd attractive, while the artist is equally successful in his waterfall pictnre. Armin A. Schmidt and W. 1-'. Bnrrand are two artists whose -work also calls for mention. In " The Bathers " the former artist has succeeded in giving an excellent presentation of sunlight and dapnled shadow, while the pose of the chief figure is graceful and natural. YC F. Rarraud's " Aoranrri " gives a rather unusual ch'rnose of this oft-painted monarch of mountains, depictinc: tlio golden plow of sunset on the coir] blue heights.