The gallery, which is 50 feet square, is artificially lighted on a carefully considered plan, which allows for adjustments and modifications, and will ensure a uniform and even glow, such as cannot be got by a daylight arrangement.
[9] The manager was painter/printmaker, critic, broadcaster and lecturer Stephanie Taylor (1899–1974),[10][11][12] and director, the art collector and connoisseur[13] George Page-Cooper (c.1895-1967).
[18][19] A September 1943 report in The Bulletin demonstrates its optimistic openness to Modernism; Art shows of various groups and the crowds they draw give abundant evidence that war hasn’t yet squelched our aesthetic senses.
Norman MacGeorge, expatiating on surrealism and symbolism and such developments, drew a surprisingly large audience to the Velasquez Galleries.
It Is a pity that there are not a few more public-spirited people like the late Mr. Tye, who are willing to sacrifice a little of their profits for the cultural development of the city which gives them a living.