ART EXHIBITION

Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 July 1943, Page 2

ART EXHIBITION

FINE ARRAY OF PICTURES MASTERTON CLUB’S ANNUAL DISPLAY. \ WORK OF FOUNDATION MEMBERS AND OTHERS. A bright, fresh exhibition, featuring the work of foundation members as well as that of many of the younger generation is being held in the Bannister Street Hall by the Masteiton Art Club. Most of the pictures, which embrace a wide variety of subjects, are water-colours, though there is a small selection in oils and other mediums. A display of school children’s work, papier mache articles and some photographic studies is also included in the display. ‘ . The popularity of water-colours is probably due to the fact that this medium suits the Wairarapa landscape and the greater number of the exhibits depict district scenes. The work generally is of a high standard and notable in this direction is the splendid contribution to the exhibition by young members. A Chinese boy has a water-colour on display, and a member of the Marine Corps and a Japanese prisoner-of-war-have pencil drawings on view. The Chinese boy, Louis Gar Sun, an expupil of the Masterton West School, is at present a prisoner-of-war in Canton. Mr S. B. Maclennan, the club’s critic, has five pictures on exhibition —two oils, two water-colours and a colour lino. One of the water-colours is a fine view of St. Matthew’s Church in ruins, after the earthquake of last year, and the other is a study in the lounge of a Masterton theatre at the interval. A stormy seascape, looking towards Kapiti Island from Paekakariki Beach and a picture of White Leghorn fowls are presented in oils. Mrs Maclennan has a pen and wash drawing—a figure study —in which there is the utmost economy of line and brush. The drawing, which was made in ten minutes, received favourable notice at the recent New Zealand Academy exhibition in Wellington. Other teachers at local schools also have work on view. Miss M. B. Darwin has oils and water-col-ours, including one of a Maori woman which has plenty of character. Miss Renai has two pieces of sculpture. A group of pictures by foundation members of the clubs is attracting attention. Prominent among them is a striking seascape by Mrs W. Dalziell and other exhibitors are Mrs A. T. P. Hubbard, Mrs Cook, Mrs G. H. Collie, Miss F. Maunsell and Dr. Archer Hosking. Prominent among the work of other members of the club is a farm industry scene by Miss C. Cockerill, a picture which was exhibited recently before the New Zealand Academy. A young student, Miss Frances Rutherford, who is taking an art course at the Canterbury School of Art, has two oils and a water-colour on view. Some promising material is included in the school display by pupils of the Wairarapa College, Solway College and St. Matthew’s School. Drawings, designs and posters make up this exhibit. Papier mache articles made by the Country Women's Red Cross papier mache group for a hospital ship and for military hospitals in the Pacific and craft work by Mrs Carroll, Miss E. Steer and Mrs Kemble Welch are also on view. The photographic studies are by Miss Iva Gordon. Other members exhibiting are: Mesdames J. H. Cunningham, F. C. Daniell. L. T. Daniell, P. G. Ramsay, E. Shaw, R. H. D. Stidolph, Watson, A. Young, Misses E. Bellis, E. Creswell, L. Cockerill, M. McClymont, Prentice, E. Steer, M. Tylee, and Mr R. Steer. The exhibition will be open this evening and tomorrow afternoon.