NKW ZEALAND ARTISTS. THEIR WORKS AT MELBOURNE EXHIBITION. Melbourne, October 10.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 312, 31 October 1888, Page 5

NKW ZEALAND ARTISTS. THEIR WORKS AT MELBOURNE EXHIBITION. Melbourne, October 10.

Tjh, " Aigus" devotes a column to a nobice of the New Zealand Fine Arts section at the Exhibition. Miss E. Rowan's water coloursj are lirsb dealt with, some being described ah conspicuous examples, of choice woi knmnohip and delicate detail. The sketches by Mr E. A. Uhapman and Mr W. M. Hodgkins are .ilso favomably ciiticised, and, referring to Mr J. Gully's exhibits it is stated that he could scarcely be represented by woilhier examples of his pencil than aie supplied by two laige drawings of the Noith and South beaches of the lvaikouras on the East Coast of the Middle Island. Mr J. (J. .Richmond, Miss Jenny Winiperis, Miss llosa Budden. Mr C. D. Bairaud and Mr A. L. Walsh also come in for favourable remark : while it is stated that there i<- no little promise in the drawings of the Missc.-j Minna and Nora Gardner, and in "The Study of a Head,'' by Miss Kate Sperrcy. The oil paintings do not, as a gencial rule, icach the same high standaid as the watei-colour drawings. Mr J. Gibb's "Ouster Ui edging " strikes the critic as being the best sea piece in the collection ot oil paintings ; and Miss E. Kate Spcney'fc •' Italian Goatherd " as one which contains indications of the greucest promise— the touch is masculine in its strength. The tace of the boy in her"Lea\mg .Home ' is also good, sufficiently so, indeed, as almost to atone for the bad drawing and feeble execution of the lest of thu pictiue. There are one hundred *md fifty-eight oil paintings and one hunched and toity watei - colour drawings, exhibited in the New Zealand Court, and the exhibitors are about fifty m number, "showing that there is a stiong disposition to culthate the pictoiial avt in that colony. There is also much artistic ability, although some of it tinds \oiy ciudo and unskilful expie^&iont- at piesenfc tor want of sound and systematic technical instruction : but when this is foithcoming we aie disposed to think a disbincthe and worthy school ot landscape painting will aii^e in the Gicalci Bntain ot the South. No country can ptesent a more splendid vaiioty of subjects for the artist to exercise hi& pencil upon.' [See page 4 lor fiuther information on our New Sealand arbistb.]