IMAGE
[Rykers, Neville Leslie?], 1927- :"See you at the Gresham". Tournament [1947-1950?]
- Date
- 1947 - 1950
- Reference
- B-185-167
- Description
Humorous pencil sketches of student life at a university sports tournament shows figures playing basketball, table tennis, fencing, hockey, shooting, marathon running. Two men sing beside a beer barrel, beer bottles rise on wings, a man tries to persuade a girl to come to the cemetery with him, a woman throws a wet missile at a man boarding a train ("The Royal Soak"), and the scene is filmed by a man from the National Film Unit.
Assumed to be drawn by Neville Rykers when he was an engineering student at Auckland University. He may have travelled to a University Easter Sports Tournament in another city. There was a Gresham Hotel in Christchurch and in Dunedin.
Quantity: 1 drawing(s).
Physical Description: Pencil sketch, 350 x 520 mm.
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Curator required
- Part of
- Rykers, Leslie Bertram Archibald, 1897-1976 :[Original art works for, and print of, advertisements, greeting cards, and illustrations for Auckland Star and Brett's Christmas annuals, mostly 1920s-1930s. Artwork by Neville L and Trevor Rykers, 1940s and 1950s].
- Format
- 1 drawing(s), Works of art, Pencil works, Humorous pictures, Pencil sketch, 350 x 520 mm., Orientation: Horizontal image
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