BRANGWYN PANELS

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 519, 1 May 1933, Page 7

BRANGWYN PANELS

MUCH-DISCUSSED PAINTINGS TO BE SHOWN AT OLYMPIA. The mueh-discussed Brangwyn panels, a series of decorative paintings designed by Mr. Frank Brangwyn for the re-deeoration of the Royal Gallery of the Honse. of Lords, are at last to be revealed to the public in their entirety. They will be exhibited in a. fitfcingly dignified setting at the Daily Mail Ideal Home Exhihition, which was opened by Mrs. Stanley Baldwin, at j Olympia, London, W., on March 29. It may be recalled that Mr. Brang.wyn was commissioned by the late Lord Iveagh to p'aint a serie3 of sixteen panels, to take the form of some representation of the Enipire which was at stake in the war, and to harmonise with the scheme of the Beers' War Memorial. In 1930, five of the panels were placed in position in the House of Lords and examined by the Royal Commission of Fine Arts. Following thi3 examination, the Commission reported against the panels, expressing the fear that they would not harmonise with the surroundings. The Commission's report was subsequently debated in the Kouse of Lords, with the result that the report of the Commission was adopted and the paintings were rejected. The decision led to ta great deal of controversy, into which entered snch famous personalities as Mr. Richard Sickert, Sir Arthur Cope, Mr. G. R. W. Nevinson, the late Sir William I Orpen, the late Sir Aston Webb, Sir John Burnet, and Sir George Clausen. Now, for the first time, these muehdiscussed works of art, comprising all the sixteep panels, and revealing Mr. Brangwyn's scheme in all completeness, are to be exhibited for the benefit of the genera.1 public. They will, without doubt, arouse widespread interest and provoke keen discnssion when they are seen in the special setting which is being prepared at Olympia.