Bill Sutton
Aotearoa New Zealand, b.1917, d.2000
Read more about this artist on WikipediaHeathcote Helmore study for ‘Homage to Frances Hodgkins’
- 1951
- Pencil
- Gift of the artist, 1978
- 560 x 380mm
- 78/78:3-10
Tags: architects, grids (layout features), monochrome, people (agents), sketches, studies (visual works)
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.
Exhibition History
