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Evelyn Margaret Page was a New Zealand artist. Her career covered seven decades, and her main areas of interest were landscapes, portraits, still lifes and nudes.

Early life
Page was born in Christchurch, New Zealand, in 1899, the youngest of seven children of Mary Renshaw and John Polson. Her father was accountant and then manager of Suckling Brothers shoe company. == Education ==
Education
In 1906, Page started primary school at Sydenham School. == Career ==
Career
In 1922, Page was elected to the Canterbury Society of Arts, which enabled her to begin working as a professional artist, exhibiting and selling portraits and landscape works around New Zealand. From 1930 to 1936, Page was a teacher at the Canterbury College School of Art. During this time she taught Bill Sutton, who went on to become a well-known artist. == Personal life ==
Personal life
Page married pianist Frederick Page in 1938 in Governors Bay, near Christchurch, and they rented a country house there for the next seven years before moving to Wellington. They had two children, a son (Sebastian, born 1939) and a daughter (Anna, born 1942). Her husband died suddenly in 1983, and Page died in 1988 in Wellington. ==References==
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