The Waikato Heads
Maker
Frances Dolina Ellis
Production date
Circa 1950
Description
Painted in a more constructed way than some of her later works, this depiction of the Waikato Heads with Port Waikato on the left shows the significant influence of the Cubist tradition on Ellis’s work.
Frances Dolina 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.
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