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Haurongo: Clark, Russell Stuart Cedric

Russell Clark, January 1960

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Russell Clark, January 1960

Russell Clark putting the finishing touches to his sculpture of the dolphin Opo, the Opononi dolphin, in January 1960. From the 1950s, versatile artist Russell Clark turned increasingly to sculpture, and was in demand for public projects such as this 1960 memorial sculpture of Opo.

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Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: PAColl-6208-42

Photograph by W. Hart Smith

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Neil Roberts. 'Clark, Russell Stuart Cedric', Ngā Tāngata Taumata Rau, i tāngia tuatahitia ki 2000, whakahou January 2021. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/357/russell-clark-january-1960 (accessed 4 June 2026).