item details
NameSenior life class at Elam School of Art, Auckland
ProductionUnknown; circa 1926; Auckland
Classificationblack-and-white prints
Dimensions40, 65
Registration NumberO.009732
Credit linePurchased 1997 with New Zealand Lottery Grants Board funds
Overview
This photograph shows students in the senior life drawing class at Auckland's Elam School of Art. They are photographed on the roof of the art school's Rutland Street building.
The people photographed are: Top row (left to right) Seddon McLaren, Eric Lee-Johnson, A. Lois White, Sina Woolcott, [unknown - Ms Stanley?], Hilda Dixon and A. J. C. Fisher (Director). Bottom row (left to right) Leonard Studd (tutor), Dorothy Thornhill, May Smith, Eva Middlebrook, Ellen McGowan and Winifred Simpson.
References:
Nicola Green, 'By the waters of babylon. The art of A. Lois White' (Auckland City Art Gallery, 1993), p. 21
Ian Thwaites and Rie Fletcher, 'We learnt to see. Elam's Rutland Group 1935-1958' (Puriri Press, 2004), p. 9