passion for E. Ambrose Webster, the American Modernist pioneer who painted in Bermuda in the early part of this century.

At 4 p.m. this Sunday, South Carolina museum curator and Webster essayist Ms Martha Severens will deliver a lecture called "In Pursuit of Sunlight: E.

Ambrose Webster in Bermuda''.

The lecture, which will be held at the Bermuda National Gallery, costs $10 for BNG members and $15 for non-members.

Tickets can be purchased by calling the Masterworks Gallery at 295-5580.

The lecture by Ms Severens, who is currently the curator of the Greenville County Museum of Art in Greenville, South Carolina, marks the latest in a string of Webster-related events in Bermuda and elsewhere.

Last week, a telethon that was organised by the Bermudiana-collecting Masterworks Foundation raised some $47,000 for the acquisition of three paintings that were reportedly created by Webster on the Island.

And on November 11, the Babcock Galleries in Manhattan kicked off a major Webster exhibition that features a dozen of the artist's masterworks and ends on December 22.

Ms Severens wrote an essay on Webster for the exhibition's colour-illustrated catalogue.