Relief Workers
Still Life/In the Quarry/Relief Workers 1933
Oil on canvas 676x480mm
© Estate of Ngaio Marsh
Collection: Ngaio Marsh House, Cashmere, Christchurch, New Zealand (Property of J. Dacres-Mannings)


Ngaio Marsh originally submitted this work for exhibition in the Canterbury Society of Arts 1935 Annual Exhibition under the title of Still Life but was advised that it was not a still life! She then changed the name to In the Quarry. The work was subsequently exhibited as Relief Workers.