ART SOCIETY’S MEDAL
Presentation Made To Sir Janies Hay
“No non-painter has done so much to assist art in the province,” said the president of the Canterbury Society of Arts (Mr S. E. Mair) when he presented the society’s 1965 medal to Sir James Hay, in recognition of his “meritorious services to art.”
The presentation was made at the opening of the society’s autumn exhibition in the Durham Street Art Gallery, on Saturday. Mr Mair said Sir James Hay had been closely associated with art in Canterbury for the last few years. He spoke of his early interest in music, and mentioned his patronage of the Woolston Brass Band, the Christchurch Civic Orchestra and the British Drama League. “Music is abstract art,” Mr Mair said, and it is therefore not surprising that Sir James Hay turned to the visual arts in 1960 and sponsored the first Hay’s art competition.”
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30711, 29 March 1965, Page 8
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ART SOCIETY’S MEDAL
Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30711, 29 March 1965, Page 8
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