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Commissioned sculpture

Panel, Drill Hall, Cape Town

Around 1934 she produced a decorative panel for the Drill Hall, Cape Town. This

showed a battlefield scene with a tank and field gun, and is quite uncharacteristic of her
realm of interest. But it may have flowed from her work at George with its military

associations. Its existence and exact location remain to be established.

Nymphs, Ballroom, Kelvin Grove

In 1934 she executed two nymphs on the exterior wall over the entrance to the ballroom

at Kelvin Grove, Newlands. (Figs. 4.35 & 4.36).

Seal and Crucifix

Also around this time she produced a large seal in cement for a public swimming bath or

aquarium somewhere, perhaps at Durban, as well as a crucifix, also in cement, probably
for a cemetery, or a specific grave somewhere yet to be identified. (Figs. 4.37 & 4.38).

Bronzes of St. Francis and a Deva of the Birds

Much later, in 1941, she executed a bronze panel of St. Francis for a recess, presumably
in a church somewhere, and another bronze described as A Deva of the Birds. (Figs. 4.39

& 4.40). The whereabouts of both of these remain to be discovered.

However, her really big commissions were for artwork on two new buildings rising in
Cape Town during the early 1930s.