Cedric D. Savage (1901 - 1969)

studied painting, modelling and sculpture at Canterbury School of Art before he became a modeller and designer. He taught and painted in Fiji from 1930-33 and Sydney from 1935-40 before serving in the New Zealand forces during WWII.

After the war he moved to Takaka and travelled widely in Spain, Greece, Italy and the Aegean islands from 1955. The New Zealand government presented one of his paintings to the Queen Mother in 1956 and he won first prize in the Kelliher Awards in 1961. He died in Spain.

He is represented in the Auckland Art Gallery, Anderson Park Art Gallery, Invercargill, Dowse Art Museum, Lower Hutt, Hawkes Bay Museum, Napier, Hocken Library, Dunedin, Robert McDougall Art Gallery, Christchurch, Sarjeant Gallery, Wanganui, and Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington.

("The Concise Dictionary of New Zealand Artists, Painters, Printmakers, Sculptors" by Kate McGahey)
 
Clearly signed at lower left.

Professionally framed.

Size:
Frame = 500 mm wide x 395 mm high
Image = 395 mm wide x 293 mm high