EXHIBITION OF PICTURES.

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4384, 15 June 1901, Page 3

EXHIBITION OF PICTURES.

The industry of Air C. N. Worsley is proverbial in local art circles. He has been a great traveller, and wherever his art instincts have led him he seems to have found abundant material for his sketch books. There is at present on exhibition at Messrs AlcGregor Wright and Co.’s Art Gallery some of the fruits of this artist’s peregrinations in search of the beautiful in Spain, the western isles of the Mediterranean, and in our own New Zealand. There are ninetyfive in number, and a more charming or interesting collection from the brushy of one artist has not been seen in Wellington of recent years. The most prominent picture in the room is No. 55, “A Aloorish Gateway, Spain,” already sold. The conception of tnis picture is admirable. How deeply imbued th e artist became with th e spirit of Aloorish Spain scenery is shown in numberless examples. No. 69, “Church Doorway, Palrna, Alajorca,” is an exquisite little work, and in many narrow Continental street scenes the artist has excelled himself. The breadth of Air W r orsley’s receptive faculty is shown in the masterly way in which he adapted himself to the delineation of New Zealand scenery, which is destitute of those architectural beauties iu which the Continent of Europe is so rich'. In the realm of pure landscape to which our artists are perforce confined. Air Worsley has patiently worked himself to a leading place. Driven to nature for inspiration, he has sought to depict her beauties in every mood of tho changeful disposition which makes New Zealand a paradise to lovers of pure landscape. This is seen in “Stormy Weather, Poverty Bay,” with the bushes in the foreground cowering under tho lashing wind, and the milkwhite, churning sea in the bay.