Sculptor Explains
Draped Figures for St. James Theatre
ARCHITECT’S INSTRUCTIONS “It gives me rather a shock to find that any exception should be taken in the community to the display of the nude in public!” Mr. William H. Wright, A.R.C.A., sculptor, who designed the six female figures for the new St. James Theatre in Auckland, said to-day that his instructions from the architects at the outset were for the figures to be slightly draped. The figures, as is always the case, were originally modelled in the nude. It was from one of these models that The Sun obtained its photograph. When exhibited, however, at the St. James, they will all be draped. “There is nothing impure or immoral about a nude figure as far as I can see. To my mind tho impurity must lie in the mind of the person who raises an objection. “As a sculptor I would naturally prefer to see the figures nude. The human form is more beautiful than any draping whatsoever. Drapery, therefore, to my mind, is superfluous".’’
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 380, 14 June 1928, Page 13
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174Sculptor Explains Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 380, 14 June 1928, Page 13
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