ART EXHIBITION.

Wairarapa Age, 23 March 1929, Page 4

ART EXHIBITION.

1 DISPLAY OF PICTURES PROBABLE 1 e BOOK OF REMEMBRANCE PROPOSED I Efforts are being maxle by the Art jOomjnjt'tee of the Wa-irarapa Industrial * [Exhibition to add another attraction jto tho already Jong list an connection e |with the Art Exhibition. The Artists’ “[Committee in Wellington, which is tak"jing an active part in raising money for the Nation:! Art Galloiy and o Museum Boibu.ig Eurni has been upt proached to ascertain if help could not n be given in connection with the for.thd coming Wairarapa Exhibition. As nearsly all the prominent artists of New c Zealand have given pictures for an Art Union which is being conducted by the 0 Artists’ Committee, it has been sugj gested that n good exhibition of pic- ’ tures might be arranged to be included :n the Art Section ol the Wairarapa n Exhibition and that tho committee be permitted to sell there the art union u tickets. A further scheme has been put tori' ward by Mr A. Clomas, chairman of » n the Art Section. He proposes that a c book of remembrance' be produced, posd sibiy in tho style of a fifteenth een- :• ury volume, in which the autographs will appear of al! persons in the "Waii rarnpa who. subscribe towards tho National Museum fund. When flic build- . ing was completed the hook should be t deposited in the building as a remeanbraace of those in Wairarapa who had made donations to the fund. The scheme is stated to have been favour- . ably received in various quarters end _ there is every possibility of it being carried out on the lines indicated. Professor Rankine Brown, of the 3 Victoria University College, Welling |ton, will speak at' the Social Hall on i [May 21, when an illustrated lecture on '.Greek art will be given. Tickets for J Ihe Art Union will admit the holders free. Other speakers include Dr. MMaun-sell. on the 4 4 Art Tree.sure? of Ihe [Vatican”; Mr Johannes C. Anderoen, f of the Turnbull I.ibrary, Wellington, on t 4 Maori Art,” a®d Mr R. J. Barton, of ] Masterton, on 44 Early New Zealand ReQ cords, with particular reference to the i Wairarapa.” Several oflier speaker® a are iu» sight t SSS L 1