ROYAL ACADEMY

Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 109, 10 May 1934, Page 4

ROYAL ACADEMY

AUCKLANDER'S WORKS

ACCEPTED

(By Telegraph—Press Association.}

AUCKLAND, May 9,

Cabled advice has been received by Mr. "W. .Wright, instructor, in modelling at the Elam School of Art that two works by him have been accepted. for exhibition in this year's Eoyal Academy.r '.'■'

Both works are portrait busts in plaster. One is" of. the artist's wife who is shown with her hair bound in a :handkerchief. ' The other work is the head of a vivacious young girl '.'Eleanor," with a mass of bobbed hair. . . . ■ ■

Mr. "Wright had' several works accepted for. the academy before- he came to New Zealand from England a: number of years ago, and four since including the two already mentioned 3 iThose: sent from Auckland and accepted earlier were "Louise," the head of a girl,, and "Molly,", a muehadmired half-length of a girl fingering her necklace. Bpth. were cast in bronze and are now in the city gallery.

Mr. E. Priest was welcomed by the chairman of the Wellington -Acclimatisation Society 'last- night as delegate from the Palmerston ftorth' sub-committee, in placebf Mr. C. E. Matthews, whose term of office has expired.