NEW ZEALAND ART

Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 October 1939, Page 6

NEW ZEALAND ART

DISPLAY TO GO ON TOUR. REQUEST FOR INCLUSION OF MASTERTON. Representations were made by the Mayor, Mr T. Jordan, yesterday, to Dr A. H. McLintock, director of the comnrittee controlling on exhibition of New Zealand art, that _ Masterton should be included in the itinerary of the display, which was to be shown in the principal towns of New Zealand. Dr McLintock visited Masterton yesterday to discuss the matter and was present at a meeting attended by Mi Jordan, representatives of the borough and county and of the Masterton Sketch Club. As a display associated with the Centennial Exhibition, the Government has compiled from the records of the earliest days of New Zealand colonisation a most interesting and valuable collection of sketches and paintings by Nev; Zealand residents and has also incorporated in the display examples of present day art by New Zealanders. This exhibit is not to be confused with the Art Gallery collection of pictures nor with the pictures specially imported from England to be on view at the exhibition. It is an exhibition of purely New Zealand work, sponsored by tne Government for the purpose of enabling the public to inspect work by New Zealand artists. The Government would be responsible for transport and insurance, the local authority undertaking to find a suitable hall and provide a nightwatchman. a caretaxer and the necessary labour for handling the exhibits. It was. hoped that the pictures would be on display for a period of nine days, including two weekGl Dr McLintock inspected the Municipal Hall and adjoining rooms and stated that they would be. most suitable for housing the collection for dis--1 Mr Jordan considered that Masterton’s claims for inclusion in the exhibition itinerary were well warranted and he expressed the hope that Di McLintock would make strong representations to that end. At the conclusion of the meeting, Dr McLintock inspected the Sketch Club exhibition.

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MASTERTON DISPLAY AT LATER DATE.

As it was not possible to arrange for the Municipal Hall to be available foi the whole week the National Art Gal* lory collection of pictures, which it was hoped to have on display in Masterton during Recreation Week, will be on display at the first opportune time. Two collections are available, one of reproductions of sixty old masters and modern paintings presented to the Art Gallery by the Carneigie Corporation of New York, the pictures ranging in size from 42 to 32 ins to 12 by 8 ms and a collection of British present day printing, including posters, show cards and examples of modern printing, obtained from the British Association of Master Printers, London. It is hoped to have both collections, of possible, on view in Mastertcn.