MONDAY, JANUARY 6, 1992
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GOVERNOR OPENS 'RARE BIRDS OF CHINA' EXHIBITION
THE GOVERNOR, SIR DAVID WILSON TODAY (MONDAY) OPENED A PAINTING EXHIBITION OF RARE AND ENDANGERED SPECIES OF BIRDS IN CHINA.
BY
COLLECTION OFFICIATING AT THE OPENING OF 'RARE BIRDS OF CHINA'
THE GOVERNOR THE HONG KONG-BORN ARTIST, MR J. FENWICK LANSDOWNE, SAID THE COLLECTION WOULD SHOW MANY, WHO MIGHT NOT OTHERWISE HAD KNOWN ABOUT IT, SOMETHING OF CHINA'S RICH NATURAL HERITAGE.
"IT SHOULD HERITAGE," HE SAID.
HELP TO ENCOURAGE PRESERVATION
OF THIS
SPLENDID
OF
NEWBIGGING, FORMER
THE COLLECTION WHICH CONSISTS OF 32 ORNITHOLOGICAL STUDIES THREATENED SPECIES, WAS COMMISSIONED BY MR DAVID
JAMES D. CHAIRMAN OF JARDINE MATHESON, AND HIS NEW YORK FRIEND WOLFENSOHN IN 1984 WITH THE AIM OF PRODUCING A LIMITED EDITION OF FINE PRINTS.
APPRECIATION
OF BIRD LIFE
SIR DAVID SAID MR NEWBIGGING'S BENEFITTED FROM HIS LONG AND CLOSE ASSOCIATION WITH HONG KONG.
"HE
WHEN THE COMPANY WAS CHAIRMAN OF JARDINE MATHESON
OF HONG COMMISSIONED A SERIES OF EIGHT SPLENDID PAINTINGS OF BIRDS KONG, PUBLISHED IN 1982 AS A LIMITED EDITION OF PRINTS OF THE PRESENT COLLECTION AND BY THE SAME ARTIST.
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A FORERUNNER
"HE HAS CERTAINLY MADE AN IMPORTANT CONTRIBUTION TO ORNITHOLOGY HERE TODAY, FOR COMMISSIONING 32 WORKS OF ART, MANY ON DISPLAY PUBLICATION AS THE 'RARE BIRDS OF CHINA'," THE GOVERNOR SAID.
BY
DEMONSTRATED THE
SIR DAVID SAID THE WORKS IN THE EXHIBITION ARTIST'S REMARKABLE ABILITY TO CAPTURE THE MINUTEST DETAIL AND TO GIVE A FEELING OF LIFE TO THE BIRDS HE PAINTED.
THE
GOVERNOR NOTED
ASPECT OF
THAT MR HIS
WORK,
LANSDOWNE DEDICATED
INCLUDING THE
H
TREMENDOUS BACKGROUND EFFORT TO EVERY
THAT HE VEGETATION ON WHICH HE TOOK GREAT PAINS TO SUCH AN EXTENT
ΤΟ HELP BY PROVIDING HAD ASKED THE
CHRIS BONINGTON MOUNTAINEER
IN THE DETAILED PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE HABITAT OF THE HIMALAYAN SPECIES COLLECTION.
AND. TO THE ASIA
SIR DAVID PAID TRIBUTE TO HONG KONG LAND SOCIETY WHO HAD HELPED BRING THE EXHIBITS TO HONG KONG.
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