70. William A Sutton
Prophesy
Woodblock print
17.5 x 12 cm
Signed, inscribed & dated 1940
est. $400 - 600
Fetched $475
Relative Size: Prophesy
Relative size

W A (Bill) Sutton, CBE (1917-2000) was an iconic Canterbury artist, whose work was chosen as a major retrospective to mark the opening of the Christchurch Art Gallery in 2003.

Trained at the Canterbury University College School of Art in the 1930s, Sutton travelled overseas and served in the Second World War before returning to the University where he taught for more than 30 years. Sutton was also a skilled calligrapher, printmaker, designer and bookbinder, and a teacher whose work influenced many New Zealand painters. His ashes were scattered from the bridge in Dry September on to the rocks of the landscape he made his own.

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