ARTS EXHIBITION.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19957, 28 May 1928, Page 11

ARTS EXHIBITION.

OPENING THIS EVENING. OILS AND WATER-COLOURS. HIGHER STANDARD ATTAINED. Art-lovers are keenly looking forward to the annual exhibition of the Auckland Society of Arts, which will be opened by the Governor-General, Sir Charles Fergusson, this evening. Her Excellency Lady Alice Fergusson will also be present. This is the first occasion on which the exhibition has been held away from the Society of Arts Hall, but owing to the excellent arrangements made for hanging the pictures in the new Dilworth Building, no disadvantage is likely to occur. Six well-lighted rooms on the fifth floor have been specially fitted to take all the pictures necessary and the effect is all that could be desired. s Greater care has been taken this year in weeding out all pictures but the best and most suitable, the hanging committee having exercised its powers in this respect more drastically than usual. The result, it is claimed, is a general raising' of the standard of the pictures exhibited. Local art is not so well represented as in past years, owing to the departure of several well-known artists from Auckland. One of the local painters whose work is massed is Mr. R. Proctor, who is leaving shortly for Melbourne. The place usually occupied by these absentees, however, is being filled by former Aucklanders now resident overseas. Among these is Mr. Robert Johnson, of Sydney, who is exhibiting three Australian landscapes, and Miss Winifred Caddy, of Sydney, who has three Australian landscapes in water colours. Miss Minnie F. White, also formerly of Auckland, is represented by several New Zealand landscapes. The largest exhibitor is Miss Ida Carey, of Matamata, who has eight oil paintings and is also represented in the crafts section, where she has several samples of Batik work. Mr. Archibald F. Nicoll is also largely represented in the oils. Though the- exhibition is chiefly given over to the latter section, water colours are unusually numerous and photographs and etchings are fairly well represented. The crafts have been largely neglected, although there is a small selection of hand-pai atecj china by Miss Leah O. Hayne. The opening of the exhibition at eight o'clock this evening will be for members only. To-morro'w and for three weeks thereafter the exhibition will be open to the public from 12 to 5 p.m., with evening vie wings from 7.30 to 10 p.m. on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays only.