ART EXHIBITION.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 394, 30 March 1937, Page 4

ART EXHIBITION.

Display of New Zealand Artists’ Work. Specimen work of fifteen New Zealand artists is included in a splendid exhibition of oils, water colours, aquatinits, and etchings in Messrs Buckley and Son’s shop, in Broadway, at present, and already has attracted a great deal of attention from the public interested in art. Some of the Dominion’e best tlalent is. included in the collection. The 'Work of Miss E. Wasjdbourn, who features water colours of the Nelson district, is well represented in the exhibition. This lady artist, who is still in her twenties, shows great promise. Other artists who should be include Miss Cv'enneth Richardson, who has won considerable distinction with her water colours of New Zealand scenery. Miss O. Sp< ncer-Bower, of Christchurch, is another Vater colour artist who has contributed much to the high stundard maintained by the exhibition. Miss’ M. Ellis, who studies in Australia supplies water colours of scenes in Sydney, where Miss Ellis spent a considerable period. Her work is essentially of the modern school of art. Sidney Higgs, the Australian born

ur-tist who has spent many years in Nk-w Zealand, bias contributed also to the value of the exhibition, as also hat 1 Marcus King, of Wellington, -who exhibits water colours and oils, the latter predominating. A Wanganui. artist, Mrs V. Whiteman, has pictures in the coll ction Mrs Whiteman speclialises in animal studies done in water colour. Miss Jean McKay and Mrs Whitt, two former pupils o.f the late Miss- D. K. Richmond, have contributed interesting flower studies. Included also are pictures by .the late Miss St odd art, of Christchurch, and Mrs Leda Grant, a granddaughter. r of the Ute John Gully.