THE ART EXHIBITION.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20263, 24 May 1929, Page 13

THE ART EXHIBITION.

LIMITATION ADHERED TO.

ART UNION PRIZE CHOSEN.

The " hanging committee" • of tho Auckland Society of Arts has practically completed its choice of pictures for the annual exhibition, which will be opened next week in the Kitchener Street gallery by His Excellency the Governor-General. All the oil paintings have been hung and the water-colours should be in place in the next day or two. Tho policy of strictly limiting the number of pictures accepted has been followed again this year, and as a result the average standard of the exhibition is higher than it was under the older method of completely filling the walls of the gallery. No pictures have, been " skied," and the general effect, has been much improved by judicious spacing. The Australian work forms two very striking groups, and Southern painters are, as usual, well represented. In addition to the earlier overseas consignments pictures have been sent from Europe by Pihona Haszard, Frances Hodgkins, and Jarae3 Boswell. The Elam School of Art display has been given a place of honour at one end of the main gallery, and the architectural section will bo accommodated downstairs. For tho first prize in the society's art union the committee has chosen a large water-colour by Cedric Savage, a New Zealander resident in Australia. It is a pastoral landscape, with a prospect of hills framed in an arch of tall trees, and in the foreground a party of girls bathing in a stream.