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Untitled [Oceanic Ritual Objects]
Maker
Margot Leonie Luise Philips
Production date
Circa 1951-Circa 1953
Description
During the 1950s German-born Jewish artist Margot Philips (1902 – 1988) attended the annual Auckland Residential Summer School 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 and sketch the artefacts. This student work likely depicts taonga from Oceania held by the Museum.
On the reserve of this painting is a sketch of trees alongside a river. Philips attended sketching classes under Geoff Fairburn, held at scenic spots along the Waikato River. The painting on the back of this work was likely produced under Fairburn’s tutelage.
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 1970.
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