Gifts To Gallery
The Christchurch artist, Sidney Thompson, recently gave two of his sketches in oils to the Robert McDougall Art Gallery. The sketches, painted at Concarneau in 1912 and 1915 to set the atmosphere for larger works, were very vivid and effective, said the director of the gallery (Mr W. S. Baverstock). One shows sardines and the other a fisherman.
Mr Thompson, who has been to Europe many times and is now living in retirement in Christchurch, recently celebrated his ninetysecond
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 31922, 25 February 1969, Page 12
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