Frances Hodgkins
Artwork Detail
Close friend Geoffrey Gorer, a well-known writer and social anthropologist, felt that the originality of Hodgkins’ work lay in her sensitivity to colour and her calligraphic manner of painting. In Purbeck farm, the thickly applied gouache becomes as much decorative as descriptive. To animate the matte paint finish Hodgkins modified the dry gouache by drawing over it with graphite, which gives a certain sheen to the surface. (Frances Hodgkins - Leitmotif, 2005)
- Title
- Purbeck Farm
- Artist/creator
- Frances Hodgkins
- Production date
- 1942
- Medium
- gouache
- Dimensions
- 768 x 906 mm
- Credit line
- Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, purchased 1955
- Accession no
- 1955/32
- Other ID
- 55/209 Old Accession Number, 1955/32/C, FH1218 Frances Hodgkins Catalogue Raisonné Number, FH1942_018 Old Frances Hodgkins Number, 42.18 RW Number, 79:10:33A RW Negative Number
- Copyright
- No known copyright restrictions
- Department
- New Zealand Art
- Display status
- Not on display
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