Water-colour
p. 13 · Read in the full issue
Pacific Islanders in Water-colour
THIS is Captain Hilder, well-known skipper of Burns Philp’s Islands ships who will hold a water colour exhibition in Anthony Hordern’s art gallery, Sydney between September 12-24.
The exhibition will be opened by Profes sor A. P. Elkin, of the Department of Anthropology, Sydney University at the gallery on September 12.
The pictures are studies of native inhabitants of the Pacific basin—Melan esians, Micronesians, Polynesians, Indo nesians, Malays, Chinese, etc. Each picture is mounted in matting peculiar to the area from which the subject comes, and framed in teak—some of it from the wrecked BP motor-vessel Macdhui which was sunk by the Japs in Port Moresby harbour in 1942.
Credit for the execution and the idea of the matting mounts, which enhance the character of the studies, goes to Mrs.
Hilder who has worked as hard for this exhibition as the artist himself.