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Beauty in Unlikely Places

We Learnt to See: Elam’s Rutland Group 1935–1958: A Biographical Journey with Auckland Artists, Puriri Press, Auckland 2004, p. 423; and information kindly provided by Kyla Mackenzie.

34. Tom Bolster, ‘Show Points a Way for New Zealand Painters’, Auckland Star, 2 October 1951.

35. Gordon H. Brown, op. cit., p. 63; John Bell, Auckland Star, 28 May 1951, quoted in Brown, p. 63.

36. Gordon H. Brown, op. cit., p. 61.

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