Purchase of sculpture
The $2OO contribution to help the Christchurch City Council buy a cast aluminium sculpture for the Robert McDougall Art Gallery was made by the Group, and not by the Christchurch Sculptors’ Group as stated in the report of the gallery’s director (Mr B. D. Muir) to the council on Monday night. The Group is an organisation of artists, with members all over the country, which has held exhibitions annually in Christchurch since the 19305. Some additional finance was provided by the fundraising efforts of the Sculptors’ Group, Mr Muir said last evening. Miss Szirmay was Frances Hodgkins, Fellow at Otago University last year. When the sculpture was bought from her one-man show’ at the C.S.A. gallery in December, it was thought that the McDougall gallery had insufficient money in its current purchasing fund to complete the purchase, and a campaign was launched by the Sculptors’ Group to raise $7OO towards it. The $5OO drawn by the gallery in a Peter Stuyvesant Foundation ballot could not be used because this money was restricted to the purchase of paintings. However, sufficient money was now available, Mr Muir said.
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Press, Volume CXII, Issue 32848, 23 February 1972, Page 18
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