Cyrene Mission School Painting

A drawing by students at the Cyrene Mission School, founded by Scottish clergyman Edward Paterson in 1940, within Southern Rhodesia, the former British occupied territory ruled by a White settler minority. Art practice was encouraged, though under faulty White savior pretexts, and the school eventually became a destination for aspiring young artists from around Africa. Attempts have been made to repatriate these works via donation without response. Both signed in recto. One with typed annotation to verso [this watercolour drawing was made by an African schoolboy at Cyrene, Southern Rhodesia. 1949. The name of the boy is ...]. Other with stamp in verso [CYRENE BAG P. 130 BULAWAYO] and hand annotations.