Untitled [Cactus]
Maker
Margot Leonie Luise Philips
Production date
1952
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.
This early student work of a cactus was likely produced while Philips was in Auckland attending an annual Residential Summer School in Art and Design in 1952. Cacti like these were in the garden at St Paul’s Church, Symonds Street, Auckland, near O’Rorke Hall where Philips was staying.
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