MEANS TO AN END

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 690, 15 June 1929, Page 1

MEANS TO AN END

YOUNG ARTIST ENTERS DOMESTIC SERVICE NOW REACHING SUCCESS To be the first student of the Elam School of Art to have a drawing purchased for the City Art Gallery, is the honour that has ccme to Miss Hildegarde Dixon. Her lira wing, u sepia study of a figure, is being exhibited at the UHiiULil show of the Auckland Society Arts, and is one of three pictures purchased by the City Council. Miss Dixon began her studies at r . of Art in 1924, and she lemai-ied there for four years. She •it' a lvised by the director, Mr. A. J. p* her, to continue her study in -nglaad. but having no resources to •l aw up ] seemed as if the adMii- could never be accepted. Determined, however, to make her J >Wn opportunity. Miss Dixou went 1,110 domestic service, and finally d enough money to pay her pass* n Sland, and keep herself at Hoyal College of Art. London. r he three guineas which the City Council paid for her drawing will be * m °dest but useful aid to this indomitable young artist. The director of the' Liam School ‘ insiders that she will do well in the future, and already she has had the •ostinctioi- of having had a charcoal thawing published in “The Studio.’*