Models of New Zealand Statuary

Ladies' Mirror, Volume 4, Issue 10, 1 April 1926, Page 14

Models of New Zealand Statuary

There are many striking statues in this young country that refleet the ardent spirit of the ancients who have handed down through generations in metal and stone some of the most graceful and artistic expressions of the human form. It is

with pride we New Zealanders can claim that after untold decades we can reproduce living replicas of the best types from which the world's greatest statuary has been modelled, Unfortunately the artistic work of one's own generation often re-

mains to “blush unseen.” Let us hope posterity will he more appreciative. Most of the statues from these models have been used in connection with war memorials, and are worthy acquisitions to the institutes that erected them.

The reproductions arc actual poses, specially taken for The Mirror, by the well-known Auckland physical culturist, Mr. W. Norman Kerr, and some have been rendered in graven form by another Auckland artist, Mr. Richard O. Gross.