GIFT PICTURES

New Zealand Times, Volume XL, Issue 9043, 14 May 1915, Page 9

GIFT PICTURES

. AimSTS’ PATRIOTIC ACTION. Tlie collection of some forty works by local artists which Messrs W. 11. Turnbull amt Co. aro exhibiting m. their hajuumi street gallery is attracting much attention. They are to be sold without reserve in aid ol a fund for. the purchase of a -water-filter wagon for the New Zealand expeditionary force.- General Godley has asked for a number of these .wagons, and their importance, especially if operations in Turkey should last any length of time, cannot be over-estimated.. With foul water come typhoid, cholera, and other diseases, which in warfare are as deadly as tho enemy's bullets. A number of local artists saw a way to helpi in this matter. ’ They readily gave of their best work, offering the public good value for money, and the pictures will be sold ior the wagon fund. Messrs Turnbull and Co. have lent the gallery free of charge, and Mr Turnhull will auction' the pictures on Friday on the same terms. The pictures will be sold to the highest bidder, who will not be expected to request the lot to -be 11 ut up again, although this may be done if so desired, in order that .the fund may bo amplified to an extent that not only one wagon, but the horses for it, may be purchased. ' Reference can be made here to only a few of the pictures, some of which, by the way, attracted much favourable notice when exhibited at the recent* exhibition. The large oil painting, “Kapai te Koura” (W. A.- Bowring), is a striking piece of work full of humour, showing a smiling-faced Maori boy enjoying a crayfish. The lad wears a dark green jersey and holds the vermilioncoloured crayfish in his lap—a happy 'colour scheme. Golfers, who have had trouble with a certain clump of treed at Heretaunga links will be interested in the. same artist’s clever oil sketch of the locality. Miss Arndt’s forceful etchings will appeal to her many admirers. Two little gems, Naples and Genoa, by Mr Pitkethly should attract strong competition. Makara Estuary and a bold study of characteristic Wellington coast *%cenery by Welch (water colours) should sell well. “The Picnic.” a freely-treated work, remarkable for its luminous qualities and bold colouring, worthily represents Miss H. Chapman. A -clever, work, “Fireworks” (in pastel), by W. H. Carter, has already attracted much attention. Etchings, an oil. and an alpine picture in black and white by Mr J. Mclkmald should fetch a good price. 'They are among the best things in tho gallery. Miss Lucy Kemp Welch has ah honest disciple in Miss Flora Scales, as her strongly handled farm subject, horses in a dray, will prove. Miss Bendall’s fantasy should command a good price. Miss Violet Nelson’s skilful decorative work has already had many admirers. Mr Killick’s rural subjects will, no doubt, readily find purchasers. Miss Richmopd has a characteristic piece of work in water colours, a study of a girl reading and seated beneath a clump of trees treated in the artist’s well-known and pleasing decorative manner. Opportunity to secure some of tho works of Mr K. M. Ballantyne is afforded by this artist —one of the most promising of young New Zealanders. Other artists represented are Misses V. Chapman, -T. Nelson, F. Richardson. Elftn Perry, E. L. Prince, E. Woodward. Messrs H. M. Gore. TV Sedgwick, H Seott, M. Fever, B. E. Chappie, W. H. Pratt, and P. Hodgkins. ■