Salient: Victoria University Students' Paper. Vol. 25, No. 3. 1962.
Stewart MacLennan
Stewart MacLennan
Wellington's S. B. Maclennan—the Director of The National Art Gallery—recently won two water-colour competitions. First, the B.N.Z. Mural competition with " Wellington Suburban Garden," a lovely piece of work and second the 1962 Hays Art Contest (remember the outcry last year?). Both were £100 prizes. Mr. Maclennan's winning entry, highly praised, was " Shaken and Deserted", which, together with the first work mentioned—the latter being acquired for the National Gallery's permanent collection—we may reproduce in a later issue.
Mr Maclennan is, as I pointed out in reviewing the 1961 Kelliher Exhibition, a painter of unsurpassing sincerity and a very fine water-colourist indeed. Those who saw the 1961 Kelliher could not but be impressed with his " Akatarawa" which won an award of merit. It is, incidentally, possible that we may see the Hay's collection in Wellington soon.