Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Europeans began producing art in New Zealand as soon as they arrived, with many exploration ships including an artist to record newly discovered places, people, flora and fauna. The first European work of art made in New Zealand was a drawing by Isaac Gilsemans , the artist on Abel Tasman 's expedition of 1642.
William Mathew Hodgkins (23 September 1833 – 9 February 1898) was a 19th-century New Zealand painter. [1] He was a leading advocate of art in Dunedin and founded New Zealand's first art gallery in the city. He was a considerable water colour painter in his own right. According to his daughter Frances Hodgkins, he was the 'father of art in New ...
John Lysaght Moore (28 March 1897 – 8 June 1965) [1] was a New Zealand painter, printmaker, weaver and knitter. His work is in the collections of the National Library of New Zealand, the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa and the Auckland Art Gallery. [2] [3] [4] [5]
Brownson, Ron, ed. Art Toi: New Zealand Art at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki. Auckland: Auckland Art Gallery, 2011. Caughey, Elizabeth & John Gow. Contemporary New Zealand Art 1. Auckland: David Bateman, 1997. Docking, Gil, Michael Dunn & Edward Hanfling. Two Hundred and Forty Years of New Zealand Painting (revised). Auckland: David ...
Doris More Lusk (5 May 1916 – 14 April 1990) was a New Zealand painter, potter, art teacher, and university lecturer. As a potter, she was known under her married name Doris Holland . In 1990 she was posthumously awarded the Governor General Art Award in recognition of her artistic career and contributions.
Kathleen (Kitty) Airini Vane (née Mair; 22 January 1891 – 1965) was a New Zealand painter who specialised in watercolours and tempera landscape paintings. [1] Many of her paintings can now be found in art museums and galleries all over the world. [2]
George D. Valentine was a Scottish photographer, who relocated to New Zealand due to his health, and documented much of the country at a time of great transition – his images of the Pink and White Terraces, taken in 1885, show scenes of incredible beauty that were buried less than a year later by 1886 eruption of Mount Tarawera.
Donald Clendon Peebles ONZM (5 March 1922 – 27 March 2010) was a New Zealand artist. He is regarded as a pioneer of abstract art in New Zealand, [1] and his works are held in the collections of Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, [2] the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, [3] and Christchurch Art Gallery.