PAINTINGS OF PLANES
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Oil paintings by a young self - taught Christchurch artist which- depict three types of aircraft being flown by the United States Navy in support of scientific studies in the Antarctic are on display in a Cashel street window. The paintings are of Hercules. Neptune and Super Constellation aircraft and were completed in the last few months by Mr G. Sutton, who hopes to go to the United States next year to further his ambition to become an international aviation painter. Already Mr Sutton has received praise for his work from the Aviation Artists’ Society in London, which considers that his paintings merit showing at one of its exhibitions. A former pupil of Christchurch Boys’ High School, Mr Sutton was for seven or eight years employed as a window dresser but gave this up to continue with his painting. Each painting takes from 50 to 100 hours to complete. Two of the action paintings he did of Stirling Moss and Jack Brabham now hang at the Steering Wheel Club in London.
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29672, 16 November 1961, Page 17
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176PAINTINGS OF PLANES Press, Volume C, Issue 29672, 16 November 1961, Page 17
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