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‘Dry September’

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‘Dry September’

The Canterbury artist William Sutton developed a hard-edged landscape style, accentuating the effects of light, in the two decades after the Second World War.

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Christchurch Art Gallery - Te Puna o Waiwhetu

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by William Alexander Sutton

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Jock Phillips, Light – Light and the arts, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/artwork/7708/dry-september (accessed 25 June 2026).

Story by Jock Phillips, published 2 March 2009.