ACCEPTED BY ROYAL ACADEMY
PftRTRAfTBUSTS IN PLAS.TER-/BY AUCKLAND ARTIST [Fik United Press A*sociatiok.] AUCKLAND, May 9. Cabled advice has been received by Mr W. H. Wright, instructor in modelling at the Elarii School of Art, that two works by him have been accepted for exhibition in this year’s Royal Academy. 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 bust has not been exhibited in Auckland. The other work is the head of a vivacious young girl, “ Eleanor,” with a mass of bobbed hair. It was shown in the Citv Art Gallery for a period at the end of 1930. Mr Wright had several, works accepted for the acadeniy before he came to New Zealand from England a number of years ago, and four since, including the two already-mentioned. Those sent from Auckland arid accepted earlier were' “ Louise,” the head of a girl,, and “ Molly,” a much-admired halflength of a girl fingering her necklace. Botli are cast in bronze, and are now. ,in the City Gallery.
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Evening Star, Issue 21716, 10 May 1934, Page 1
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181ACCEPTED BY ROYAL ACADEMY Evening Star, Issue 21716, 10 May 1934, Page 1
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