ART EXHIBITION

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 72, Issue 260, 1 November 1929, Page 6

ART EXHIBITION

FINE COLLECTION OF PAINTINGS FINAL TWO WEEKS Although the attendance at the Wanganui Art Society’s exhibition is not large, it is steadily maintained from day to day. Visitors are warm in their praise of the high standard achieved by the contributing artists. The exhibition is of interest as being representative of IJcw Zealand art. It will be opened for only another two weeks and intending visitors should therefore take care that they do not leave it too late to inspect the collection. Some of the works displayed arc of the finest order and others, while they fail to reach a high standard, give a promise of better things with more study. This is the case of a study, “Dunedin’s Hill” by Edna B. Jeans. Two portrait studies by Jean Hawkcn also show considerable promise. It may be mentioned here that Miss Hawken has exhibited a plaster bust which is a very striking piece of modelling. A pleasing composition is “Lake Waikaremoana, ’’ by W. S Wauchop. but, if anything, the blue tone is somewhat insistent. “Devil’s Punchbowl” by Enga Washbourn, is in good tone. Ida H. Carey has contributed an “Interior” in oils which is very attractive and quite the best she has sent along. A scene in a bay of one of the wellknown islands which stud the Hauraki Gulf is presented in “Putiki Point, from Surfdale, ” by Ida G. Eise. It is bright and true in colour. A dignified study of an Arab selling oranges, particularly striking in the character revealed in the face of the vendor, is provided in a •water-colour, by Mr C. Hay Campbell. Mr Campbell has also rendered the lamplight and moonlight in fine tone in “The Mill Pond Swanage.” A pleasing example of Miss Jenny Campbell’s impressionistic work is “Lake Taupo.” Realistic efforts of water breaking upon the rocks are attained by A. F. Nicholl in two sea studies, “In Merry Mood,” and “Foveaux Straits.” “Deep Bay, French Pass,’’ an opalescent work with an air rtf mystery about it is from the brush of E. Boyes. In “Evening Akaroa,” the. artist B. E. Chapple has depicted the twilight effectively. In its brown and grey colour, “The Angler’s Paradise” is rather different from Marcus King’s usual sunny compositions.