EDITORIAL
We show a view of part of the City Gallery, which is now reserved for New Zealand painting.
It is also used for concerts and lectures, hence the necessity for mobile wall screens which allow a sufficiently fluid display.
This is the problem when a room of this kind serves a double purpose. The constant setting out and removal of chairs and the
adjustment of display arrangements makes us look forward one day to the provision of a set lecture room.
OVERSEAS VISIT
The Director is to make a visit to Europe from November to March.
The two main reasons for this visit are to purchase works for the Permanent Collection and to find further sources of temporary
exhibitions. Few people outside the profession are aware that to maintain a steady programme of exhibitions year after year
calls for advance planning and exploration of new sources, for usually one source produces only one exhibition. Furthermore,
because of New Zealand's remoteness we have to rely a great deal on the generosity of lenders. We should pay tribute here
to the many who have continuously responded to our
requests.
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THE PRIVATE DONOR
In this issue, which we have devoted entirely to Italian works we publish two paintings in
the collection which have recently been presented to the Gallery by private donors. Both are welcome gifts for not only
are the paintings fine additions to the collection, but this evidence of disinterested patronage is welcome in a country
where such a tradition, in relation to art galleries, is in its infancy. We may hope that the Government may see its way
to granting some tax exemption on such gifts, so that similar public spirited gestures might be encouraged.
FORTHCOMING EXHIBITIONS
Although our programme for the first six months of the year has been very full, the
last six months will be as interesting.
At the time of writing the exhibition New Zealand Realist Painting, 1850-1960, will be on show.
This exhibition will be followed by: —
School of Paris Original Prints. (Selected by M. Daniel Henry Kahnweiler).
John Gully (the early New Zealand watercolourist ).
Eighty Old Master Drawings from the Witt Collection (lent by the Courtauld Institute, London).
Contemporary Japanese Woodcuts.
Dutch Graphic Art.
New Zealand Abstract Painting.
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