Untitled [Modernist Observational Study of Polynesian Items]

Maker
Margot Leonie Luise Philips
Production date
Circa 1951-Circa 1953
 Description
During the 1950s German-born Jewish artist Margot Philips (1902 – 1988) attended annual Auckland Residential Summer Schools in Art and Design, first at Ardmore Teachers’ Training College, and later at Auckland Art Gallery. The adult students were directed to go to the Auckland War Memorial Museum to sketch the artefacts.
This observational sketch would have been produced by Philips during one of these visits.

Philips eventually launched 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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Maker
Production date
Circa 1951-Circa 1953
Media/Materials
Crayon and tempera on paper
Measurements
460 x 590 mm (sight)
Production place
Auckland, North Island, New Zealand
Collection
Visual Arts
Department collection type
Visual Arts
Credit line
Collection of Waikato Museum Te Whare Taonga o Waikato
Accession number
1987/41/20

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