Landscape I
Maker
Margot Leonie Luise Philips
Production date
Circa 1955
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.
Philips attended sketching classes under Geoff Fairburn, held at scenic spots along the Waikato River on Saturday mornings. This early landscape painting depicting a view towards Te Awa o Waikato, the Waikato River, may have been produced under Fairburn’s tutelage.
This work, one of Philips’ earliest on pinex board, was also variously known as ‘Dr Rogers’ garden’, and ‘Across the river’.
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