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    HomeCollectionWild Flowers, Boboli Gardens, Florence 2 April 1974
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    Bill Sutton

    Aotearoa New Zealand, b.1917, d.2000

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    Wild Flowers, Boboli Gardens, Florence 2 April 1974

    • 1974
    • Watercolour
    • Gift of the artist, 1989
    • 335 x 525mm
    • 89/131:71-114
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    Tags: flowers (plants), grasses (plants), purple (color), yellow (color)

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    Sutton, William Alexander (Aotearoa New Zealand, b.1917, d.2000)

     

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    Exhibition History

    William Sutton Anghiari, From The Arezzo-Sansepolcro Road, 29 July 1974 1973–4. Watercolour. Collection of Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū, gift of the artist, 1989
    W.A. Sutton: Watercolours of Italy
    Image: uploads/2021_07/Roadstorome.jpg
    Roads to Rome
    Image: uploads/2022_07/89_1315E71-114.jpg

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    30 years ago today...

    30 years ago today...

    ...Bill Sutton was in the Boboli Gardens in Florence where he painted this exquisite arrangement of wild flowers.

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