IN MODERN ATTIRE

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 88, 5 July 1927, Page 15

IN MODERN ATTIRE

FIGURES IN HOLY PICTURE PAINTING CAUSES DISCUSSION A Modernist painting on the wall of All Hallows’ Church, East India Docks, E„ is arousing keen discussion among the congregation. The painting, which is not yet completed, covers about 50ft of the side wall and is about Sft in height. The artist is a girl, Miss Evelyn Dodgson. who started the work two years ago. The scene will represent Christ addressing the multitudes on the shores of the Lake of Galilee.

A figure which has provoked much comment is that of a young man in wide Oxford trousers, and what appears to be a brown coat. A second figure, also wearing Oxford "bags," is holding a horse. ... , The women are dressed in long loose garments, not of the conventional Bible picture type, but nut easily classified as belonging to any particular period. The cetnral figure of Jesus has not yet been drawn. Vo doubt the artist has reverted to the idea of medieval painters, who often introduced into their pictures ot Biblical subjects persons attired in the costumes of, the period. The Rev. C. J. Horsley-Smith, the vicar, said t* a "Daily Mail" reporter: "Miss Dodgson has given us a ta jk on the picture. She told us that the scenery was taken from a loch she knew in Scotland, and that Jesus would be represented in conventional dress. The picture was started before I arrived at this parish. The artist has done no work on it this year. . , The Bishop of London granted the facility for the patfctins-