AN ARTIST ABROAD

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 128, 23 February 1921, Page 6

AN ARTIST ABROAD

RETURN OF MR. C. 11. HOWARTH

Mr. C. H. .Howarth, one of New Zealand’s best-known artists, l as returned to Wellington from a lengthy visit to England. When he went Home some eighteen .months ago, Mr. Howarth took with him a number of his -own canvasw illustrative of New Zealand scenery in its many moods. He says that he found the task of selling his pictures in England much easier than in New Zealand, and he was able to get better prices, lie visited the Royal Academy shows of 1919 and 1920, and. considered the work shown there generally not up to the standard of some twenty years ago. He marvelled how some of the work ot several R.A.’s was hung at all, whilst -there were some capital paintings by men who had not yet been admitted to the charmed circle. There were paintings by James Scott and Sydney Thompson, of New Zealand, in the last show, but in both instances he had seen better work done than that exhibited. There were still a number of "ists” showing grotesque and fantastic work, but the "Cubists” and other “peaks” were only a passing phase, for as far as he. could see such quaint extravagances did nofind buyers—and artists must live as well as ‘other people. Mr. Howarth spent a good deal ot time sketching in Cornwall and Devonshire, and has already completed a good many canvasses.