New Zealand’s Women Painters

Curated by Anne Kirker. There were four paintings by Flora Scales in this exhibition, on loan from the artist who was then living in Dunedin.

New Zealand’s Women Painters exhibition catalogue, pg 10:
41 Farm Buildings Outside Paris oil on card 235 x 305 mm. Signed: SCALES (LL). [Location Unknown]
42 Garden oil on fabric 250 x 350 mm. [Location Unknown]
43 Flowers, St lves oil on fabric 330 x 255 mm. Signed : SCALES (LR). [BC053]
44 St lves from the Artist's House oil on fabric mounted on board 310 x 405 mm. Signed: . . . SCAL . . . (LL). [Possibly Boarding House, St Ives, Cornwall [1] [BC060]]
All the above works are on loan from the Artist, Dunedin.

Flora Scales in a letter to Anne Kirker, 1975, held in Auckland Art Gallery Research Library, ref. Scales, H F V correspondence 2A:
“It is interesting to hear about the exhibition of New Zealand Women Painters and it is good of you to include some of mine and you do not owe the least apology for taking them. Mr Colin McCahon would seem enthusiastic in anything he undertook and am sure he will make the most of my work [referring to Scales's imminent Auckland City Art Gallery exhibition, 1975-1976, of which McCahon was the initiator]. I left Dunedin about five weeks ago where it is cool to come here permanently – the climate here [in Auckland] is lovely.”