Fanny Osborne

From both scientific and artistic points of view, Fanny Osborne’s paintings of the flowers of the indigenous trees, shrubs, vines and herbs of Great Barrier are exceptional and superbly crafted examples of botanical illustration. They

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Edith Stanway Halcombe

Edith Halcombe was versatile and capable in the frontier environment, and her promotion of Jersey cattle contributed to the success of New Zealand’s dairy industry. Professional tuition gave her the ability to make a competent record of the changing landscapes in which she lived. Her paintings and drawings are held in public collections in New Zealand and Australia.

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Mabel Hill

Mabel Hill’s love of early impressionism coloured her opinion of the movements that followed it. Spending her formative years in New Zealand, then marrying and raising a family instead of studying in Europe as some of her contemporaries were able to do, limited her development as an artist. Although she frequently exhibited with most of the art societies in New Zealand, few of her best works have found their way into public collections.

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Grace Jane Joel

Joel exhibited regularly in France and Great Britain with conservative bodies such as the Royal Academy of Arts in London and the Société des artistes français in Paris.

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Frances Mary Hodgkins

Frances Hodgkins was the outstanding artist of her generation, with a professional life that spanned 56 years and earned her a secure place among the English avant-garde of the 1930s and 1940s: the first New Zealand-born artist to achieve such stature.

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