Works Accepted for Royal Academy Exhibition
PORTRAIT BUSTS BY AUCKLAND Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, Las!, Night. Cabled advice has been received by Mr W. H. AV right, instructor in modelling at the Elam School oC Art, that two works by him have been accepted for exhibition in this year’s Royal Academy. Botli works are portrait busts in plaster. One is of the artist's wife, who is shown with her hair bound in a handkerchief. This bust lias not been cxhiibted 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 city Art Gallery for a period at the end of 10.50. 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. Those sent from Auckland and'accepted earlier were “Louise,” the head of a girl, and ‘‘Molly,” a much-admired half-length of a girl fingering her necklace. Both cast in bronze, are now in the citv Art Gallery.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIX, Issue 7460, 10 May 1934, Page 7
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181Works Accepted for Royal Academy Exhibition Manawatu Times, Volume LIX, Issue 7460, 10 May 1934, Page 7
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