MODERN ART.
LONDON, January 5. A collection of 346 oil pictures made by Mr George M'Oullough, formerly prominently connected with mining industries in Australia and a noted, collector of modern contemporary art, will be exhibited collectively at the Royal Academy i in place of the usual winter exhibition of old masters. The newspapers contain caustic criticisms of the extreme cat'hoiicdty of Mr M'Cullough's taste. Mr Henry Howorth, writing to The Times, states that it is understood that the colieot-ion will be sold. January 6. Sir E. J. Poynter (presid<ejit of this Royal Academy) and Mrs M'Cullough deny that there is any immediate intention to sel} the collection of pictures ngw being exhibited.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2861, 13 January 1909, Page 25
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112MODERN ART. Otago Witness, Issue 2861, 13 January 1909, Page 25
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