ART IN AUCKLAND

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 795, 16 October 1929, Page 7

ART IN AUCKLAND

SKETCH CLUB’S EXHIBITION I The annual exhibition of the Auck- ; land Society of Arts Sketch Club will bo inaugurated at a private view in j the society’s galleries in Kitchener i Street this evening. Miss Ellen Mel- ! ville, chairman of the City Council Art ! Gallery Committee, who will be supI ported by the president of the society, ! -bh*. E. B. Gunson, and the chairman of l the club, Mr. R. A. Lippincott, will I perform the opening ceremony, j The sketch club, a young and vigj orous child of the art society, has • annually exhibited a collection of the ; work of irs members for several years past. These exhibitions have always proved most successful. Avoiding much of the formality in- ! separable from the parent society’s ! annual fixture, the club has succeeded in endowing its show with an atmo- j sphere or* easy goodfellowship, of pleasant intimacy which in a marked j degree promotes one of its prime objects’, the bringing together of artist and public. Today the sketch club numbers within its ranks most of the leading artists working in Auckland city and province, and has associated with it a I growing number of promising students, j Regular meetings are held at which the ; work being done by members and | associates is constructively criticised i and discussed. j That the club can claim a consider- ' able measure of success among the artists is shown by the numerical j strength of its membership. Whether I its efforts have any real aesthetic value may be judged by a visit to the exhibition, which will be opened to the public at noon on Thursday and will remain open until about the end of the month, daily in the afternoons and every evening except Monday and ; Saturday.