PRINT SHOW OPENED

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 731, 2 August 1929, Page 11

PRINT SHOW OPENED

GIFTS FROM EXHIBITORS Opened officially at the Art Gallery yesterday afternoon, the loan exhibition of prints illustrating' the progress and variety of graphic art, may now be inspected by the public. The opening ceremony was performed by Miss Ellen Melville, chairman of the Library Committee, and those present included the Mayor, Mr. George Baildon, Mr. John Barr, city librarian and director of the Art Gallery, and Mr. T. V. Gulliver, who assisted Mr. Barr in the organisation of the exhibition. Miss Melville, in declaring the exhibition open, thanked the people who had loaned pictures for the show. She said that when the new Art Gallery was opened it was hoped to have a room set apart for the exhibition of loan collections. These, she said, were valuable from the educational point of view. It was announced that Mrs. Lushington, who had loaned two prints for the exhibition, wished them to be placed permanently in the Art Gallery’s print collection. A gift of a LeeHankey etching had also been made by Mrs. J. Wilson Muirhead. The exhibition will be open for three weeks. The week day hours are from 10 a.m. to 4.30 p.m., and on Sundays from 2 p.m. to 4.30 p.m.