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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXVII, Issue XIII, 28 September 1901, Page 590

An exhibition of special interest to the Auckland public is to be held in the Palmerston Buildings, Queenstreet, on Thursday next, the 26th inst., when Mr Watkins, the wellknowu artist, will have on view a number of his latest works. This is the first occasion for some years past that Mr Watkins has exhibited work, and is therefore an opportunity nbt to be missed. Mr Watkins is a "water colour painter of considerable reputation in this colony, as well as outside. It may not be generally known that Lady Ranfurly purchased one of his water colours of creek scenery as a gift to the Duke aud Duchess of York, and we believe he was the only artist so honoured here. The works on view include finished paintings and a number of impressionist studies. The subjects are varied. Of very particular interest, are pictures of the Hot Lakes and the terraces before the eruption. The water colour of Lake Tarawera is almost the first picture Mr Watkins painted on his arrival in the colony. What cliaractci ises this collection in common with all Mr Watkins’ work, it its refreshing regard for local truth. In this artist's pictures more than in those of any other New Zealand painter, we have New Zealand as it really is under its varied aspects of summer sky or storm. Intense sympathy with Nature in her many moods and with the native life of New Zealand is the keynote of Mr Watklns'i work.