Seal
Maker
Margot Leonie Luise Philips
Production date
Circa 1950
Description
In January 1950, German-born Jewish artist Margot Philips (1902 – 1988) attended the Auckland Residential Summer School in Art and Design under the tutelage of Arthur Hipwell. Students were taken to Auckland Zoo and instructed to draw the animals.
This early student work of a seal sitting on a rock by the water depicts a scene from the Auckland Zoo. It was likely produced at her first summer school, although Philips returned each summer for further guidance throughout the 1950s, eventually launching a career as one of the Waikato’s leading twentieth-century artists. Philips first experimented with landscape painting in the 1950s, and then rose in prominence through the 1960s and 1970s.
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