WORKS OF ART.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1389, 15 March 1912, Page 3

WORKS OF ART.

4 DISPLAY AT WM. TUIiXBULL AND GO'S. The walls of Win. Turnbull and Co.'s comfortablo little top-lighted auctionroom are just now decora toil with a choice assortment of oil and water-colours from tho brushes of several well-known English and Continental artists, whose work is not unknown in Wellington, Thcso pictures are not to be sold by auction, but will be exhibited for private sale from to-day, with prices attached. In a visit paid to the Turnbull Gallery one cannot help being struck by a large oil painting by Fred. Morgan, entitled "A Maid of the Netherlands," the figure of a simple Dutch maid of sweet expression. The figure is well-drawn, and tho smile of semi-surprise has been admirably caught. Tho colouring, which is of neutral tints, doos not idealise tile study. There aro in the collection many marine studies. One of the best of them is a scene on the Thames entitled "Tower Bridge," showing a raazo of shipping in tho turgid waters of the Thames naif lost in a liazo of mingled fog and smoke— a sceno quite familiar to all who know London. The water-colour is by Charles Dixon, E. 1., an admirable draughtsman and colourist, whoso work is acccpted among the best. Another very excellent water-colour is a figure study, entitled "Watching the Procession,by Pietro Barucci. It represents a little group of Italian men and women watching a procession. The group is painted from a dark interior looking towards an open window, out of which the people aro watching the prooessioii below. Each 0110 is caught in the light that floods through the window, and tho effect is pleasing. The figures are strongly painted, anil the picture is wcll-balanccd. J. W. Gozzard is ail artist who loves "to paint the world at, eventide." He lias n sorics of nice pictures with n darkling touch—a country road, thatched cottage, and group of trees standing out against the light of fading day in tho distance. F. .1. Aldridgo lias placcd a good many of his pictures in New Zealand already. Thero is a breezy life and movement in his seascapes, which consist generally of broken water and a sailing vessel heeling over to tho breeze. Mr. Aldridgo has a predilection for dull, dirty weather, and his impressions of the "Channel Chops" under such conditions are very faithful. Prof. V. Loria paints Nnples and its vicinity in preference to anything else, and those who have scon Naples will readily admit that the artist catches tho bright clear air and vivid colouring of tho Mediterranean with a deft, clean (ouch. His "Amn'lfi," "The Fishing l'orf of Nnples," "Han Lucia, Nnples," and "Tho Seashore of Naples" are painted in tho one spirit, and all are attractive in their class. Other artists represented nro Fred Elliott fa talented painter of seascapes), J. Hamilton Glass, Mario Spinetti, A. do Corsi, .T. T!. Goodman, A. Sherwood, A. Gillini, Prof. Kiccardi, S. M'lvor, and TI. K. Storie. Tho collection is well worthy of close inspection by art lovers.