SARJEANT GALLERY

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXI, Issue 18818, 6 July 1923, Page 2

SARJEANT GALLERY

ART PHOTOGRAPHS.

Some time ago the committee of the Sarjeant Gallery was approached by Mr. F. J. Denton, who made the suggestion that portion of the Gallery should be set aside for a permanent exhibit of pictures by photograph, and if the committee would agree to the request he would endeavour to obtain a collection. The idea at the back of th# proposal Was to demonstrate to the many visitors to our beautiful Gallery that in the hands of competent men and women, the camera could and did produce pictures of artistic merit (peculiar, perhaps, to the process) worthy of recognition in any art collection. This fact is being recognised more year by year in other countries, and it is desirable that it should be realised in this community also. Having gained the acquiescence of the committee, Mr. Denton has been working enthusiastically to this end. We un-

derstand that from about two hundred circulars sent out, he has so far received about forty willing responses, twenty-five of which have materialised, and others are to Go so shortly, making a fine nucleus for the longed-for collection. Accompanying the circulars were small photographs of Wanganui and of the Gallery, the latter an evidence to those sufficiently generous to donate a picture that their work would be hung in a home worthy of the best that could be sent. Accompanying

some of the pictures were sent by . the donors letters expressing ap- j preciation o£ tide-beauties of the Gal- | lery and also .of Wanganui. Tho greatest obstacle has oeen the difficulty of procuring the addresses of first-class men willing to make a little sacrifice for so laudable an ob-1 iect, but this is being gradually over- I come, and Mr. Denton expects that j sufficient work will be obtained to ■ exhibit the collection early in 1924, and which he h«tf>es will contain representative work from many parts of the globe. Alretuly pictures have j been received fnom photographers I from England, America, Australia | and New Zealand.