N.Z. ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 182, 22 April 1918, Page 7

N.Z. ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS

SKETCH EXHIBITION

OPENED BY THE PRESIDENT

Very interesting indeed is (he sketch exhibition, which was formally opened to tho public on Saturday afternoon by tho president of tho New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts (Mr. 11. Jr. Gore). The smaller upstairs gallery, in which tho exhibition is held, was well filled with visitors, who included not a few of tho artists whose work adorns the walls.

The exhibition was formally opened by the president at 11.30 p.m.- Mr. Gore said that it was the first exhibition of the kind. Hitherto they bad been miserably cramped for room, but now they had an additional gallery they hoped to make tho exhibition an annual one. (Hear, hear.) This was the first occasion on which he had been able to speak with perfect impartiality—ho had nothing in the show—so that ho could say that tho exhibition was good both a,s regards quality and quantity. He did not mean to convey that tho work was all good, but they considered it advisable to give the comers-on a chance of showing their work in public, and profiling thereby in an educational sense. Tho exhibition coincided witli 'one of the great crises in tho war, and ho hoped that it would mark a favourable turn in Urn great struggle. (Applause.) During tho afternoon lea was served by the members of the council.

Tho exhibition will bo open from 10 a.m. to i p.m. daily throughout the week.