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 WALKER ART GALLERY 



During the past official year the Walker Art Gallery has been utilized 

 to its utmost capacity, and nothing has been lost sight of by the 

 Committee that would tend to render the Institution popular and 

 instructive. 



The public have not been slow to avail themselves of the facilities 

 afforded for Art study, and have most loyally supported the various 

 exhibitions that have been held, while the largely increased number of 

 visitors to the Permanent Gallery gives evidence of the growing interest 

 shown in the collection by the inhabitants ot the City and neighbourhood. 



In the early part of the year a Photographic Exhibition was held in the 

 Gallery, under the auspices of the Liverpool Amateur Photographic 

 Association, which was very largely attended, and proved very successful 

 and profitable to the promoters. 



His Worship the Mayor, J. B. Morgan, Esq., during his year of ofiice 

 invited the Members of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers to a 

 reception and ball, for which purpose the upper rooms were specially 

 arranged and decorated. 



The chief event of the year in the Committee's operations was of 

 course the Autumn Exhibition, which was more than usually successful. 

 Not only was the general character of the Exhibition of a high order, but 

 several works of exceptional interest, kindly lent by their owners, proved 

 so attractive that the receipts of the exhibition were thereby considerably 

 augmented. 



The year has been notable from the fact that for the first time the Art 

 Gallery has been open to the public on Sundays, this having been 

 recommended by the Committee and endorsed by the City Council. Up 

 to the time of this report the Gallery has been open on 13 Sunday 

 afternoons from 2-30 to 5-30, the attendance averaging 1,773 per Sunday. 



In the midst of the activity which characterized the year's operations 

 the Committee, at the suggestion of the Right Honorable A. B. Forwood, 

 M.P., with a view to calling public attention to technical education, 

 decided upon holding a Naval Exhibition in the Gallery in the 

 early Spring of 1892. The carrying out of this project, involving a large 



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