FOR PRESS: P.M.NO 33/1966 AUSTRALIAN PAINTING FOR QUEEN MOTHER
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FOR PRESS P. M. No. 33/ 1966
AUSTRALIAN PA INTING FOR QUEEN MOTHER
At G:'-vernment House in Canberra today, the
Prime Minister, Mr. Holt, presented The Queen Mother with
a painting by the Australian artist, Clifton Pugh.
Called " Burnt Landscape" tit is tne of two
Australian paintings being given to The Queen Mother by the
Government and people of Australia to mark her current visit.
The second painting, " Storm Approaching
Marree", is by Kenneth Jack and was painted in 1965. The
Pugh work is dated 1964 and depicts the aftermath of a
bushfire. CANBER~ RA,
4th April, 1966.
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