PROPOSED DOMINION ART GALLERY.
OPINION OF CANTERBURY SOCIETY OF ARTS. CHRISTCHURCH, March 27. The Canterbury Society of Arts, in a communication to the Prime Minister on the subject of the proposed establishment of a Dominion Art Gallery in Wellington, states that it is convinced that it would not be in the best interests of art in New Zealand that a Dominion art collection be founded in one centre in New Zealand. There were four cities of equal importance and an attempt to make any one of these a centre of interest for the whole could not possibly prove successful. It was absolutely necessary that in each city there should be equal educational advantages. The principal object of a public art gallery was to provide the highest models of art production, and it was obvious that a central art gallery could not be of much service to students resident in the other cities, as any work of art, to be of educational value, needs to be studied again and again. The society recommends the continuance of Government grants to the art societies and the adoption of interchange of pictures between societies for a definite period, thus enabling those residing in any one city to have an opportunity of seeing and studying the whole collection of the Dominion in turn.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3029, 3 April 1912, Page 4
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218PROPOSED DOMINION ART GALLERY. Otago Witness, Issue 3029, 3 April 1912, Page 4
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