BRUSH AND PENCIL

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 536, 13 December 1928, Page 1

BRUSH AND PENCIL

SCHOOL OF ART DISPLAY HIGH STANDARD REVEALED Selected from the cream of the past year’s work, the drawings, paintings and models in the annual exhibition of the Auckland School of Arts are of a high and promising standard. The exhibition opened to-day and will be continued to-merrow and on Saturday. One of the special features of this year’s display is the section devoted to senior landscape paintings in oils. This is practically a new departure in the school. The quality of the work speaks eloquently for the success of the innovation. The majority of the landscapes are well-known subjects in and about Auckland, and their treatment is orthodox in style, but care and ability have been combined with exceedingly happy results. The junior section includes a number of promising pencil drawings and colour designs by children from 13 to 15 years of age. These include posters and studies of life. A. sheet of designs by Joyce Cornes is worthy of special attention, while colour designs by Miss Harrison Smith are also of unusual merit. Still-life colour work and charming pencil studies are in the second year junior section. The modelling class has now completed its third year of existence, and the work carried out in the past year has been really admirable. It is represented in the exhibition by a number of modelled heads, reliefs, and ornamental designs. Ruth Innes, a firstyear student, shows great promise, a head by Jocelyn Wilkie is an example of bold, sure treatment, and Horace Parker has exhibited unusual skill with an ornamental design. Among other interesting sections is a table of metal work by students of varying experience. The antique reproductions in brass and pewter show undoubted skill and a fine sense of artistic design.