William Alexander Sutton

(b Christchurch, 1 March 1917). New Zealand painter. He studied painting at the Canterbury College School of Art, Christchurch, from 1936 to 1939. He lectured in painting there from 1949 until his retirement in 1979. Although he painted many portraits, Sutton is best known for his landscapes of the Canterbury district of New Zealand, for example Nor'wester in the Cemetery (1950; Auckland, C.A.G.; for illustration see CHRISTCHURCH). Sutton's work, for instance Pastoral (1959; Auckland, C.A.G.), combines familiar imagery of the region such as typical buildings and climate in juxtapositions that hint at a more general symbolic meaning beyond the reality of the details described.

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"It is a rather pleasant experience to be alone in a bank at night."

"Don't serve time, make time serve you"

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