Untitled - Study for Riverbank
Maker
Frances Dolina Ellis
Production date
Circa 1960s
Description
Painted in a similar fashion to the works of Paul Cezanne this landscape by Frances Dolina Ellis, demonstrates a sensitive understanding of form and colour.
Ellis (1900–1971) was an active member of the Waikato Society of the Art and a close friend of the Waikato painter Ida Carey. They met while attending classes with Anthony D’Attillo Rubbo, an Italian artist and teacher who was based at Manly in Sydney, Australia. Although conventional in his own painting style Rubbo had a profound influence on many of his students, particularly in the technique of oil painting. Alongside her fellow Waikato artists, Ellis’ was considered a regionalist painter. Her painting style was very much a reflection of a cubist approach but her subject matter always reflected her local surroundings.
Object detail
330 x 415mm (image)
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