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PIG. 3 Por/roilof<br />

M(IfJ' EliZl1brth Polsoll<br />

(1923) (cal. no. ]). Mrs<br />

A.C. Wilson,<br />

Chrisrclwrch<br />

Instead, by '921, the quality of two self portraits shows a painterly<br />

understanding of the niceties of tone. She was ready to begin her own<br />

career as a painter with strong, well-composed, freely painted landscapes in<br />

the best manner of the Canterbury School tnlining. Their colour was<br />

pleasing but not adventurous.<br />

In March 1922 Evelyn Polson was elected a working member of the<br />

Canterbury Society of <strong>Art</strong>s (CSA). That year she also exhibited in<br />

Wellington at the New Zealand Academy of Fine <strong>Art</strong>s (NZAFA) and the<br />

'7

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