Enid Fleming was a pupil of Rayner Hoff's at the East Sydney Technical College at the time these works were made (Hoff and several of his other students were working on the Anzac Memorial at the time). Fleming was a close friend of Kingsford Smith's, and made several portraits of him, including a larger head and torso and a pen and ink sketch signed by the aviator, which are both in the possession of Dr Sayer. She also made a bas-relief of the Southern Cross. Fleming was never a commercial artist. She lived in Sydney all her life, and although she gave up sculpture, she continued to produce art in various media for her own pleasure.
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