Bill Sutton
Aotearoa New Zealand, b.1917, d.2000
Read more about this artist on WikipediaBill Sutton study for 'Homage to Frances Hodgkins'
- 1951
- Pencil
- Gift of the artist, 1978
- 560 x 380mm
- 78/78:4-10
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About the artist
![Sutton, William Alexander (Aotearoa New Zealand, b.1917, d.2000)](/media/cache/83/df/83df4fbdeac6b9dbc5f560d43c2a9531.jpg)
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.