RECONSTRUCTION
Work in the City Gallery continues. It has now been re-roofed and the first stages of the
lay-light inserted. We cannot hope to see it completed until after Christmas.
CONCERTS
Five lunch-time concerts were given during August and September by Andrew Gold and Pamela
Woolmore; the Malcolm Latchem String Trio; Winifred Stiles and David Gal-braith; Francis Rosner and Janetta
McStay; and Kathleen Reardon and Keith Field.
AUCKLAND GALLERY ASSOCIATES The membership now amounts to 200, which is very
encouraging, but we would still like to see more members coming forward. A fairly full programme has included
panel discussions on exhibitions and an art film evening. Two events, however, stand out from the others. First,
Mr. Eric McCormick, the biographer of Frances Hodgkins, gave an excellent and valuable talk, The Inland Eye:
a personal approach to New Zealand painting, and second, the purchase of a painting for the Gallery.
SCULPTURE COURT
Our cover illustration shows the Sculpture Court of the Gallery. In the last eighteen months we
have made many important acquisitions, and those that can be seen are by Maillol, Archi-
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penko, Degas, Epstein and Rodin. As far as is possible we have collected
drawings by the sculptors. An Epstein and a Moore can be seen on the far walls. Very shortly we hope to publish a
fully-illustrated booklet on the sculpture in the collection.
STAFF
We are very pleased to note that the Carnegie Trust of New York has awarded a grant to Mr Colin
McCahon, Keeper of the Gallery, to enable him to visit the United States for three months. We are particularly grateful to
Dr Grace McCann Morley, Director of the San Francisco Art Museum, who has taken so much on herself to arrange an
itinerary through the States and to approach the great Art Museums of America for their co-operation.
Mr McCahon's tour will include San Francisco, Los Angeles, St Louis, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland,
Cincinnati, Washington, New York and Boston. He will therefore have the opportunity of seeing every important collection
and be able to work in most of the Museums housing them.
Apart from the enrichment of Mr McCahon's own experience, this will be the first visit to the United
States of a professional staff member of a New Zealand gallery, which will bring to Auckland and New Zealand some
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