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REMARKABLE DRAUGHTSMANSHIP FROM WAY DOWN UNDER A prodigious, prolific maker of drawings, Susan Te Kahurangi King has emerged as a leading representative of New Zealand’s self-taught art world By EDWARD M. GÓMEZ

left: Untitled, c. 1960, crayon on paper, 13.5 x 8.25 ins., 34 x 21 cm above: Untitled, 1958, crayon on paper, 8 x 5 ins., 20 x 13 cm below: already at an early age, Susan was enthusiastically involved in making art; she stopped speaking around the age of four, and it is through her drawings, her family members believe, that she has interpreted her perceptions of the world and given expression to those ideas; photo Doug King

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