POSTER DISPLAY

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 300, 18 December 1937, Page 8

POSTER DISPLAY

ENGLISH PRESENT DAY WRITING

The exhibition of present day printing now on view at the Sarjeant Gallery, is engaging considerable attention. The collection tills five bays of the gallery and it has been forwarded to the Dominion for exhibition in the various galleries by the English Master Printers’ Federation. Mr. L. T. Watkins, of Wellington, the chairman of the graphic arts section of the National Gallery, was instrumental, during a recent visit to England, in. inducing the federation to provide the material for this exhibition.

IL could hardly be said that the display is not highly modern. In composition, rich colouring and striking effect the posters afford strong evidence of this type of informative and advertising media. Many residents of the city, also, will find in several of the posters scenes depicting places and in a narrower field, localities familiar to them prior to their migration to New Zealand.

The exhibition is of an entirely new type as differing from pictures in oils, water colour, etchings, steel engravings, etc. The whole display, nevertheless, is most attractive and will afford great pleasure to those with a taste for the truly artistic in pictures for the most part bold in design. r ihe exhibition will be on view at the Sarjeant Gallery for a month and admission is free.