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Rayner also produced a variety of smaller work, built up a fine school of sculpture, and in 1934 was commissioned to design the
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Italian work of the Renaissance, the Assyrian friezes, the attempt to retain only the essentials, characteristic of some of the moderns, and the simple sincerity of the
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A ten-metre-long bronze relief, over the west door of the Sydney ANZAC War
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was a great gain to
Australia. He speedily reorganized the school and succeeded in winning the enthusiasm of the students. He became a member of the
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His modelling is in a lyrical, classical art-deco manner which effortlessly combines sensuous curves with geometric line patterns.
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death on 19 November 1937 he was engaged on the George V Memorial for
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