THE BAILLIE COLLECTION.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1514, 9 August 1912, Page 4

THE BAILLIE COLLECTION.

DUNEDIN'S ART PUKCHASES. "The weather was awful in Dunedin during my exhibition there," said Mr. John Baillie, who has returned to Wellington after exhibiting his fine collection of British paintings in Christchurch and Dunedin, "and art and extremely bad weather do not flourish together us a rule. It was too bad to ask peoplo to venture out to inspect pictures in a fearfully cold gallery. Still, tho exhibition was a fair success, though it would havo been bettor if the trustees of the Public Gallery had given the public a lead by purchasing earlier than the last day of tho exhibition. Wellington people inay bo interested to learn that they' bought several good pictures which were favourites here, including 'Judith Shakespeare,' by J. Young Hunter; 'The Denial,' by Mary Young Hunter; 'Moonlight in Summertime,' by Lee Ifnnkey; 'Norman Arches,' bv Sidney Tee; 'The Green Lin•i.?t,' by S. Melton Fisher; and 'Unloading Barges on the Thames,' by James Paterson. "Among the pictures sold privately in Dunedin were: '.September in the Highlands,' by TCobt. W. Allan; 'Perugia Market,' by the same artist; and tlie Olago Art Society bought J. C. Wceorliu's Tho Ship Argo,' Cecilo Walton's 'The Wreatbmaker,' two of Frederick Bauhof's 'Moonlight,' and 'A Brit.tainy Idyll,' and Arthur Bell's 'Off to tho Herring Fishery.' "I don't suppose it would be possiblo for anyone to bring out pictures," said Mr. Baillie, "without encountering some little criticism from those who havo small capacity and little authority to nir opinions on art, and I have been no exception. Tt is awfully funny to read some of the stuff in some panel's nlleged to be artistically critical. One picture was stigmatised as rubbish, though it had been accepted for the International Exhibition at Rome. I intend, when T get back to London, to have an exhibition of the rejected and unsold pictures, and to invito my artist friends to read what some papers say of their work in New Zealand. Still, on the whole, and in Wellington particularly, there has been evident a keen appreciation of the undoubtedly splendid collection I brought from Home, and five years later the nublic will realise their good fortune in having secured the works I leave behind me."

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