M T Woollaston
Wellington
Artwork Detail
Woollaston described his recently completed painting in Art in New Zealand in 1937:
'That picture was a piece of almost spontaneous painting, and is not so much a likeness of Wellington as a symbol of my personal reaction to it. I must say I don't admire Wellington's domestic architecture, and as I looked over the scene I felt that I must express the actual chaos of Wellington's buildings by an almost abstract symbol of chaos.'
- Title
- Wellington
- Artist/creator
- Production date
- 1937
- Medium
- oil on paper mounted on cardboard
- Dimensions
- 432 x 482 mm
- Credit line
- Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, purchased 1960
- Accession no
- 1960/4
- Copyright
- Copying restrictions apply
- Department
- New Zealand Art
- Display status
- Not on display
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