Artwork
Artwork Information
This is a squared-up study for the large painting Otira Gorge 1912 which was purchased jointly by the Gallery and the Auckland Society of Arts in 1913. The grid helped van der Velden to transfer the composition on to the canvas.
Ron Brownson 2008
- Artist
- Petrus van der Velden
- Title
- Study for Otira Gorge
- Production Date
- circa 1912
- Medium
- watercolour, gouache and charcoal
- Dimensions
- 735 x 535 mm
- Credit Line
- Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, purchased 1959
- Accession No
- 1959/3
- Copyright
- No known copyright restrictions
- Department
- New Zealand Art
- Display Status
- Not on display
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