ART EXHIBITION.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20323, 2 August 1929, Page 14

ART EXHIBITION.

OLD AND MODERN PRINTS.

GALLERY DISPLAY OPENED.

LENDER'S GIFTS TO CITY. Tlio loan exhibition of old and modern prints at the Auckland Art Gallery was opened yesterday afternoon by Miss Ellen Melville, chairman of tho Library Committer of the City Council, in the presence of about 45 people. Tho Mayor, Mr. G. Baildon, Hie (own clerk, Mr. J. S. Brigham, Mr. J. Barr, chief librarian, Mr. T. V. Gulliver, who did much of the col. locting arranging and cataloguing, and several members of the City Council were among those present.

In declaring tho exhibition open, Miss Melville announced that one of the lenders of picturos. Mrs. Lushington, had intimated that she did not intend to ask for her pictures back. The two prints which she had lent, an engraver's proof of a mezzotint, " A Young Mendicant," by Valentine Green (1739-1813), and a stipple engraving, " Captain Thomas Coram," by William twitter (1754-1802), after William Hogarth, would be added to the Art Gallery. Miss Melville expressed tho committee's appreciation of Mrs. Lushington's generosity.

Referring to the success of previous loan exhibitions, two of which were held in 1927, Miss Melville remarked that when a new art gallery was built it was hoped to have a special room set apart for tho exhibition of loan collections at frequent intervals. Such exhibitions performed a valuable educational and cultural work. She gratefully acknowledged the loan ot pictures by 18 residents of Auckland and expressed the; indebtedness of tho committee to tho librarian of the Turnbull Library, Wellington, who had sent nine prints for exhibition. Mr. 'Gulliver was also thanked for the assistance ho had lent the chief librarian in arranging the collection.