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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 />
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