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Biography: Thompson, Pauline Adele

Pauline Thompson and Ross Ritchie, 1967

A young man and woman pose in front of a large, brightly coloured painting in yellow and red. There are paint pots and brushes in the foreground and another yellow and grey painting on the wall to the right of the viewer.

Pauline Thompson and Ross Ritchie as a young married couple, photographed in their studio in front of one of Ritchie’s paintings.

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Emma-Jean Kelly. 'Thompson, Pauline Adele', Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, first published in 2023. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/47793/pauline-thompson-and-ross-ritchie-1967 (accessed 4 June 2026).