Bill Sutton
Aotearoa New Zealand, b.1917, d.2000
Read more about this artist on WikipediaCompositional studies for ‘Homage to Frances Hodgkins’
- 1951
- Pencil
- Gift of the artist, 1978
- 278 x 383mm
- 78/79
Tags: group portraits, monochrome, people (agents), sketches, studies (visual works), text (layout feature)
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.
There is an information sheet available about this work.
'Homage to Frances Hodgkins' was reproduced in issue 15 of Bulletin.
