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The best of our art writing is now appearing in Metro so congratulations to you, and to Anthony Byrt for his interrogation of the Gordon Walters show at Auckland Art Gallery (July-August issue). He takes the curators to task for not bringing Walters’ life and pivotal relationship with Theo Schoon into focus, and is dead right to do so.

I was fortunate to get close to Schoon in the early 1970s. He was a frequent visitor to our

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