B.

Before her death in 1982, the artist, Olivia Spencer Bower, one of New Zealand's most accomplished artists, made careful arrangements for the disposal of her estate. She planned that the funds realised from the sale of her property and paintings should provide funds to support an artist in order to allow them to work full time for 1 year.

She established the Olivia Spencer Bower Foundation to which she bequeathed property and paintings. These works have been held in safekeeping by the Robert McDougall Art Gallery on behalf of the trustees of the Foundation.

An exhibition of drawings from the Olivia Spencer Bower Foundation collection will be shown in the Gallery from February 14 to March 24 The selection, which spans all periods of the artist's life, will subsequently be available for purchase at the Canterbury Society of Arts Gallery 14-21 April.

('Drawings from the Olivia Spencer Bower Foundation', Bulletin, No.37, January/February 1985, p.2)