EDITORIAL
The last quarter of 1958 will be always recalled as a memorable period. Due to Government restrictions on
overseas spending and the delay caused in achieving a partial lifting of the total ban on overseas exhibitions and works of art, we
had to cope with three exhibitions in seven weeks. Rembrandt, the Hiroshima Panels and Picasso lithographs. However the hard
work which this entailed was rewarded by a total attendance of 30,000 for the seven weeks.
STAFF
Mr C. McCahon returned after four months visit to Art Museums in the United States. We would like to thank
the staffs of those galleries who were so helpful and hospitable during his visit.
GALLERY ASSOCIATES
At its Annual General Meeting Mr John Stac-poole was elected Chairman to succeed Mr T.Bolster.
On November 11, Miss Ngaio Marsh, the novelist, gave an excellent lecture, Perspectives: the New
Zealander and the Visual Arts. This was the second of the annual lectures sponsored bv the Associates.
This Issue
We have devoted this issue to twentieth cen-
tury New Zealand painting. Recently we pur-
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chased a number of paintings by artists of this country, so this seemed a suitable time to review eight paintings
acquired since 1954.
W. A. SUTTON (Born 1917) New Zealand (SEE front cover)
NOR'WESTER IN THE CEMETERY
Oil on canvas 59 x 71 ins.
Signed W. A. Sutton '5O
Purchased 1954
William Sutton was born in Christchurch and educated at the Christchurch Boys' High School. He gained his
Diploma in Fine Arts at the Canterbury School of Fine Arts in 1937 and from 1947 to 1949 studied in London. Since 1950 he has been
a lecturer in painting at Canterbury.
A relentless realist, Sutton has always been absorbed by, and involved with symbols of his environment. In this
he belongs to a school of painting that has flourished in Canterbury since the early 1930's —a school concerned with the physical
appearance of the Canterbury landscape and seeking identification with it. Weathered wood and decayed churches, pine trees and
dry-as-dust grass, have appeared time and time again in the work of these painters, but it is in Sutton, and particularly in the
Nor'-wester in the Cemetery, that these objects become distilled into perhaps the final statement of their values. |
