Evening Spent At National Art Gallery

Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 187, 4 May 1940, Page 4

Evening Spent At National Art Gallery

More than 500 people were the guests of the chairman, Mr. D. A. Ewen, .and members of the management committee of the National- Art Gallery, at' a reception in the- National Art Gallery, Wellington, -last night, when the Centennial Exhibition of International and New Zealand Art was viewed in the most congenial surroundings. Tlio.se on the platform for the brief welcoming ceremony by the president were Mrs. D. A. Ewen, Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Hogg, Mrs. Murray Fuller, Dr. P. Marshall and Mr. Eric Gore. Mrs. Ewen wore a handsome gown in deep chrome red, brocaded with gold, and <t matching velvet wrap heavily trimmed with gold-brown feathers.. Mrs. Hogg wore a formal black satin gown, and Mrs. Fuller was in black crepe with a white ermine cape. The gathering broke up into social groups to spend a pleasant hour touring the galleries, finally meeting together in the supper-room for coffee and (savouries served buffet fashion. The long tables in the room, which is blue and white, were gay with golden chrysanthemums. Afterward, the results of the art union drawing were announced in the main gallery. Among those present were Mrs. P. Fraser. Mrs. IV. Nash, Lady Troup, Lady -Shirtcliffe. Dr. and Mrs. George Craig, Mr. and Mrs. George S. Nathan, Mrs. H. R. H. Chalmers, Mrs. D. A. Aiken. Mrs. T. E. Y. Seddon, Dr. and Mrs. W. Young, Mr. and Mrs. H. Bown, Mr. and Mrs. S. M. Hobbs, Mrs. David Allan, Miss Olive Barron, Mrs. M. 11. Chatfield, Mrs. T. Sprott, Miss Amy Kane, Mr. and Mrs. G. Bassant, Mrs. E. M. Sladden, Mrs; James Bennie, Misses Mary and Margaret Butler. Mr. G. G, G. Watson, Mrs. D. A. Herbert, Mrs. H. Graves, Miss Andre Bevin, Mrs. C. M. Hawkes, Mr. and Mrs. L. O. 11. 'Tripp, Mr. and’Mrs. Hubert Nathan, Mr. and Mrs. Gray Young. Mrs. H. Atkinson, Mrs. D. Rodie and Miss Mollie Rodie, Mr. Charles Todd, Dr. Graham Robertson and Miss Valerie Robertson, Miss Crawford, Mrs. M. Gillman, Mr. F. E. Greenish and Miss Greenish, Mr. F. 11. Bass, Miss Daisy Osborne (Christchurch), Mrs. Grace Butler, Miss Y. B. Cowles, Miss D. Isaacs. Mr. and Mrs. S. Higgs, Rev. F. M. Kempthorne and Mrs. Kcmpthorne, Miss Kempthorne, Mr. K. Hassall, Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Deal, Mr. and Mrs. E. W. G. Coleridge and Miss Molly Coleridge, Miss Francis Harty, Miss Audrey Davis. Mr. and Mrs. IV. Blundell, Mrs. Bruce Rennie, Mrs. W. E. Hunt, Mr. Joint Dunford, Miss Fanny Richardson, Misses Patricia and Marie Glcdhill, Mr. and Mrs. Harcus Plirnmer, Mr. and Mrs. F. Vosseller, Miss E. Ward, Madame Tarbayeff. Mrs. Martin Luckie and Miss June Luckie. Mrs. M. Witt and Miss Witt, Mr. and Mrs. Martin, Mips I'l. Clark, Miss Avis Higgs, Mrs. H. Kirkcaldie, Miss C. R. Clark, Mr. J. G. Gillon, Misses Gwen ami Joyce Ockenden, Misses K. and C. Moore, and Miss Aiisa Newton.