Studio: international art (57.1913)

Studio- Talk

“ski tracks in the wood

BY G. A. FJ/ESTAD

1911, where so many of the best Swedish artists
were well represented. In Germany, Austria, and
Italy, Fjeestad has for several years been known as
a painter of snow pictures, and leading art-critics
have devoted long and enthusiastic articles to his
work. At this last exhibition he showed some big
snow scenes such as the Snow-clad Birches and Ski
Tracks in the Wood, pictures with running water
such as The River and Water and Rocks, and
tapestries woven after his designs by his sisters;
also some paintings of the nude, but these must be
considered as more or less failures. T. L.

WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND.

—Art in New Zealand has re-
ceived a decided fillip this year
through the exhibition held
under the auspices of the New Zealand Academy
of Fine Arts at Wellington, the capital city of the
Dominion, in May and June last. In 1911 the
State made a grant of ^500 (for the purchase of
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pictures) to each of the art societies in the four
chief centres. The process by which a previous
and similar grant had been expended being con-
sidered to have been somewhat unsatisfactory, the
Council of the New Zealand Academy of Fine
Arts, the Wellington Society, then presided over
by the late Mr. H. S. Warded, decided to enlist
the assistance of Mr. George Clausen. Mr. Clausen
was therefore asked if he could induce some British
artists of repute, more particularly those of the
modern school, to send out a certain number of
pictures from which a selection could be made,
first by the Wellington Society, and later on by
similar societies in other centres. Mr. Clausen
called in the aid of Mr. John Baillie, of the well-
known Baillie Galleries (himself a New Zealander
by birth), and the latter took the project up with
such enthusiasm that he offered to bring out a
really representa tive collection of pictures and take
charge of the whole arrangement. An agreement,
on terms highly satisfactory to the Academy, was