Art and the Wood-Carver
gt HOSE of you who nave already ad--mired the Women’s Section of the Centennial Exhibition will agree that it deserves a separate and _= special visit. For those who delight in fine needlework the .tapestry dis-
played is a real source of pleasure. Every conceivable subject is tackled from allegorical themes to landscape. Many are so fine as to take on the appearance of delicate water colour. Oil painting, too, is on a high level, though flower studies, with a sprinkling of portraits, dominate the show. Bronze, copper, brass, pewter-all are’ wrought in masterly manner, from the larger exhibits of screen or chest to the minute jewelled ornaments that fill the glass cases. Busts in plaster and bronze are also to be found. Not least in interest is the wood carving. Two examples are these old chests in rare design. Examining their tireless detail one gains something of the pleasurable satisfaction of the worker in wood.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 1, Issue 26, 22 December 1939, Page 43
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159Art and the Wood-Carver New Zealand Listener, Volume 1, Issue 26, 22 December 1939, Page 43
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