MISS MYRTLE LEE

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 139, 10 December 1930, Page 13

MISS MYRTLE LEE

EXHIBITION OF ART

The exhibition of art —water colours, etchings, tempera paiuting- on wood, Clir,istmaß cards, and calendars, and tho like—now being held by Miss Myrtle Lee at M'Gregor, Wright, and Co.'s rooms in Lambton quay, is o£ more than passing interest from several points of view. Miss Lee is a grand-daughter of Mr. John Gully, the famous artist, and on the end wall of the gallery-is a tine painting of his (the Kaikouras) to remind one of the fact. But Miss Lee need not depend upon reflected fame: her work stands on its own merits, and Wellingtonians should avail themselves of the opportunity of seeing it, for Miss Lee, after her long absence from New Zealand, has something to teach the New Zealand artist who has not had the benefit of long years of study at Home. Miss Lee reveals in her water colours a most pleasing sense of colour-, and most of her work can be called bright and joyous. This is seen especially in several very charming pictures of children and others on the sea shore and in a very striking study of a fair. Very rich tones are present in the Dartmoor studies, the spirit of the moors being admirably caught. Miss -Lee displays great versatility. Besides showing quite a number of water colours, there are striking examples of tempera work of wood, figures of the.Saints, ami the like. A number of small Sniitt-figmes are also very attractive, and the Christmas, cards and calendars are just what will appeal to the diseliminating at this time o£ year. A clever etoher, too, is ;Miss Lee, and some attractive examples of this branch of her work a*§ pkow-Ha ___, , _.__