LINER QUEEN MARY.

Waikato Times, Volume 119, Issue 19901, 2 June 1936, Page 3

LINER QUEEN MARY.

__._._.___._ ‘ THE MURAL DECORATIONS. WORK OF FfiAMOUS ARTISTS. The pictures and mural decorations in the Queen Mary as a collection would rival any art exhibition. Lady Hilton Young‘s marble plaque of Queen Mary, set in a panel of special walnut burr, challenges instant [attention on board the ship, for it is set at the head or the main staircase ifaoing the main hall. Dame Laura Knight's work is in one [of the private dining-rooms at the aft end of the main restaurant. It is one of her favourite circus subjects, full of life and colour. The three other private dining—rooms are decorated respectively by Mrs Pindar Davis, Duncan Carse and H. Davis Richter. Philip Connard's large canvas sym—bolising travel in various forms domi—-nate-s the restaurant and faces the entrance doors, themselves magnifi—sent works of art in bronze by Walter and Donald Gilbert. . The side panels in this room are birds treated in a decorative manner by Duncan Carse, the subjects being on a silver ground. . For the children. In explaining the pictures Mr Carse calls attention to the fact that. paint—ing on silver moans going to the two extremes—white and black. The ‘sot‘tcr Colours in the scale are lost and ‘seem to become absorbed by the linetul. ‘ At the forward end of the restaurant .is a decorative map of the North (Atlantic with a moving model or the IQueen Mary, the work 01‘ Macdonald - Gil . l The sisters Zinkeisen have large itlecorativo canvases, Anna‘s \voz‘k ibelng in the ballroom on the promen—‘adeu deck, while that of Doris is in [the veruntluh grill—looo square feet. ]UEtll‘lC Morris has two flower studies, ,one at each end of the starboard gal—llcry on the promenadc deck, \vliilc pastoral scones by Bertram Nit-hulls arc in the lung gallery. Liliarlrs Pears has decorative paintings in the tourist smoking room, while the colourful map untlcr the clock in the some room is by Ilenry Perry. This artist is also responsible for the delightful design on the walls of the tourist children's playroom. Webster Drawings. Those on the walls of the cabin children‘s playroom are by George Iliamoni In the gymnasium on the sun deck Tom Webster—the Daily Illail's famous cartoonist—has a frieze of sporting subjects, which attracted [the special attention of the King on his recent visit to the ship. The “problem" picture by Edward \Vadsworth in the cabin smoking room will attract considerable attention, as will the mural paintings, carvings, and glass work of the other artists. The glass pictures in the ballroom look eight months to do. They are the work of Mr Jan Jutu, a young South African. His canvas has been a sheet of glass and his brushes wheels for rolling and apparatus for suntHilnsting uml burning: with holds; his tunes he has drawn from the glass itselt‘. 7/