ARRANGEMENTS COMPLETE

Evening Star, Issue 23376, 20 September 1939, Page 13

ARRANGEMENTS COMPLETE

FEATURE OF CENTENNIAL EXHIBITION After a tour of Great Britain and the Continent, Mrs Murray Fuller has returned to Wellington. Her quest for works of art for the Centennial Exhibition at the National Art Gallery has been higldy successful, and following here aro 573 pictures by prominent modern painters, as well as some sculpture and specimens of glazed coloured earthenware. These all left England some days before war was declared, and no doubts are entertained as to their safe arrival in course of time. Collecting pictures on the Continent was no easy task with perpetual alarms and scares. However, although nothing was allowed to be taken out of Holland, and a contemplated trip to Sweden had to be abandoned, she had got together, she said, a really catholic and representative collection of pictures, which included the work of a number of New Zealand artists who have made good abroad. Much of the work was of a type not previously exhibited in New Zealand.

The world’s finest picture gallery is that at Rotterdam, said Mrs Fuller. This was opened in 1936, and before the plans for it were completed visits were paid by those responsible to all the main galleries in the world. All the good points of these galleries have been incorporated into the gallery at ißotterclain, and all the had points left out. Mrs Fuller left England sonic weeks before the war started, hut even then everything possible was being done in the way of getting ready to meet any possible emergency. Camouflage artists, she noticed* were getting plenty of jrorf%