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The Scotsman, 27 February 1925

ART IN PERTH.
ANNUAL EXHIBITION.

REPRESENTATIVE SCOTTISH WORKS.

Perth is one of the Scottish towns in which over a long series of years interest in art has been kept alive by means of periodical exhibitions. Another exhibition, under the auspices of the Perthshire Art Association, is to be opened to the public in the Sandeman Public Library to-day. The promoters are considerably handicapped by the lack of adequate accommodation. The top storey of the Public Library is a considerable distance from the street, and the wall space is insufficient for such an exhibition as would be appropriate to a county town of the status of Perth. The most has been made of the facilities, but some unavoidable features of the exhibition—an effect of crowding, the impossibility of symmetrical arrangement, and difficulties of hanging old-loan pictures and modern work harmoniously—suggest that the provision by some means of a gallery in which exhibitions of the kind might be more effectively presented is now overdue.

The exhibition is of a fairly representative character and comprises 150 exhibits, including some interesting loan pictures. It is contributed to by well-known painters of Edinburgh and Glasgow, and also affords an opportunity to local artists to display their work. Amongst the notable loan pictures are three portraits by P. de Laszlo, two of them lent by Lord Forteviot, being portraits of Lady Forteviot, a full length, seated [5199], and the Hon. John Dewar, Lord Provost of Perth [5273]. The third is a portrait of Mrs. J. M. Fraser [4727], marked by suavity and verve in the rendering of the grey draperies. It is lent by Mr J. M. Fraser of Invermay.

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