Untitled
Maker
Margot Leonie Luise Philips
Production date
1959-1960
Description
German-born Jewish artist Margot Philips (1902 – 1988) began her artistic career only after her arrival in Kirikiriroa Hamilton in 1938. Enrolling in a series of adult art classes, Philips first experimented with landscape painting in the 1950s, rising in prominence as a landscape painter through the 1960s and 1970s.
While Philips encountered New Zealand abstraction through friend – and later critic – Geoffrey Fairburn’s practice, this geometric, abstract oil painting was likely produced under the tutelage of Louise Henderson. Philips attended annual Auckland Residential Summer Schools in Art and Design, first at Ardmore Teachers’ Training College in 1950, and later at Auckland City Art Gallery. Henderson taught at the Art Gallery’s summer school from 1959-1960, which Philips attended.
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