MONTH LY LETTER

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Of interest, too, were some of Henry Sproatt f s original sketches of
ideas for details of Hart House. Sketches, etc., of the Opera Festival Association
were also shown in the Club, as referred to elsewhere in this letter.
The present show consists of a number of larger paintings by Panton,
Pepper, Finley, Watson, Hallam, H o m e , Wilson, Murphy, Palmer, Casson, Bush and
Martin.
O.S.A. EXHIBITION
The 79th Annual Exhibition of the Ontario Society of Artists was opened
at the Art Gallery of Toronto on March 9th by His Excellency the Governor General.
Prior to the opening a dinner was given at the Arts and Letters Club for the
Governor General by the executive of the O.S.A., with the President, Cleeve H o m e ,
the Host. The Exhibition will continue until April 15th.
GREAT HISTORIC PAINTING BY FRED CHALLENER
At the opening of the Ontario Legislature on February 1, an honoured
guest of the Premier, Hon. Leslie Frost, was Fred S. Challener, whose fine picture
of the Fathers of Confederation has recently been hung above the archway of
the grand stairway leading up to the Legislative Library. It is an imposing
canvas of thirteen by twenty feet with an improved lighting in the composition
of the picture which is approximately one-third larger than the same subject as
painted many years ago by the late Robert Harris, though the grouping of the
thirty-four historic figures is relatively the same. The portraits of the famous
Canadian statesmen who assembled in Quebec are painted from photographs and the
figures from models.
Mr. Challener 1 s painting can best be seen from the upper gallery above
the main stairway where there will also be placed a key-chart for the better
identification of the several Fathers. It is a colourful and attractive work by
a Founder Member of this Club.
Sydney Hallam had a display of his pictures, six-and-thirty in number,
at the New Laing Galleries, Bloor St. West, from February 10-24th . The
second exhibition of pictures by unaffiliated artists will open in May in Eaton f s
(College St.) Galleries. The jury of selection includes F. S. Haines, Charles
Comfort, A. Y. Jackson and Cleeve Home...... R» York Wilson won the J. W. L.
Forster Award at the 79th O.S.A- Annual Exhibition at the Art Gallery of Toronto
recently
Langley Donges last month held his second annual one-man exhibit
of his paintings in Gordon Conn 1 s "Little Gallery 11 in Wychwood Park.
WEEK-END PAINTERS
The Fine-Art Galleries of Eaton 1 s College store presented an exhibition
of work by "week-end" painters, running from January 8th to 18th. The show was
extremely interesting and included paintings by a number of club members, among
whom were Frank Erichsen-Brown, Frank Denton, Dr. H. B. Van Wyck, Prof. Edmund
Walker.