ART SCHOLARSHIPS IN ROME
AWARD TO N.Z. STUDENT IN LONDON
(New Zealand Press Association) WANGANUI, April 25. A former Wanganui Technical College student, Mr Walden Tucker, has won one of the world’s premier art scholarships, according to advice received by his mother, Mrs L. Tucker, of Aramoho. The scholarship is the Rome Scholarship for painting, drawing, and etching, and entails study in Rome.
Four of the scholarships are awarded throughout the British Commonwealth every year. The scholarship is for two years, he holder receiving £2OO a year.
Mr Tucker left Wanganui in 1952, and has been studying at the King-ston-on-Thames Art School in London for the last two years and a half. S<nce he has been at the school he has topped his class, which is made up of students from all over the world.
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Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27642, 26 April 1955, Page 16
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