WATER COLOURS.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 239, 9 October 1928, Page 10

WATER COLOURS.

H.Z. ARTISTS' WORK.

EXHIBITION IN AUCKLAND.

The influence of the classic French school, and also that of the more modern expression of British artists, is plainly discernible in the pictures exhibited by Mr. Cranleigh Barton, a New Zealand artist, whose show is to be seen at Messrs. Milne and Choyce's, in Auckland. Mr. Barton, who was born at Maijawatu, is a grandson of the Rev. Richard Taylor one of 14 the signatories to the Treaty of Waitangi, and he was trained at the Slade School of Art, in London. The influence of Corot is expressed by Mr. Barton's gracious exemplification of leafy colouring and his dainty pencilling of the foliage which occurs in his studies of English lanes, and also in the winding byways of New Zealand. ' His mastery of line is boldly expressed in a picture of Waterloo Bridge, and. the same clean sweep is to be seen in his study of the Monnow Bridge, over the Wye, at Monmouth. His study of the Cenotaph "^ rred *»y the fact that he has insisted on undue elevation over the surWh"f d T g ,, buddings. In the line of hl nnS l-.i ® Cenota P h was meant to * part and not a <iomi - H _^ r " expression of the Cathedral of Notre Dame, as seen from the eastern bank of the Seine, reveals thp tion 8 of "th* W w l^ ht ' and his reproduc--oV},e auld brig at Nairn shows some of the. austerity of the Scottish school of colounsts. The artist's Rlalto no less than his Grafton Bridge, Auckland, show him once ajra in as one who can put line into charmimr colour. 8