REOPENING GREAT GALLERY
Dominion troops owe a debt of gratitude to the director of our National Gallery, who has maintained an exhibition all through the war (says a writer in the London "Daily Mail, referring to the reopening of the gallery in general now that the art treasures are no longer endangered by air warfare. It was-im-portant that oversea soldiers should have the opportunity of seeing some of that fine British art of the eighteenth century which in portraiture is so 'knit "up with the history of the foundation of our Empire. The director is, of all people in London, the most keenly alive to the urgency of giving as many Dominion visitors as possible a ohance to see the greatest treasures of our national collection. . But there are difficulties to be surmounted, arising chiefly from shortage of labour, before certain well-loved masterpieces can be returned to the walls. Then there we acquisitions which the public has never seen. Chief among them the naively beautiful Madonna, and Child, by Masaccio, father of that great Florentine school which is represented in our National Gallery as nowhere else outside of Italy.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 129, 25 February 1919, Page 5
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189REOPENING GREAT GALLERY Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 129, 25 February 1919, Page 5
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