Bill Sutton
Aotearoa New Zealand, b.1917, d.2000
Read more about this artist on WikipediaOlivia Spencer Bower study for 'Homage to Frances Hodgkins'
- 1951
- Pencil
- Gift of the artist, 1978
- 560 x 380mm
- 78/78:2-10
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About the artist
This is one of a series of preparatory drawings for William Sutton’s painting ‘Homage to Frances Hodgkins’. The painting, now destroyed,was a group portrait of the leading supporters of the controversial purchase of Hodgkins’s The Pleasure Garden.
'Homage to Frances Hodgkins' was reproduced in issue 15 of Bulletin.
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The Drawing Collection
Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū's Drawing Collection significantly expanded in the late 1970s, when a conscious effort was made to purchase works on paper from the varied disciplines of drawing. Prior to this, drawings came into the Gallery Collection via gifts or bequests, such as three illustrations by British/French artist George Du Maurier, gifted in 1934 by the Trustees of the artist.