Frances Hunt

Art critics and historians have identified Frances Hunt as an able practitioner of the conservative tradition of landscape painting, which was popular in Auckland in the 1920s and 1930s.

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Flora Scales

She painted mainly small, almost abstract landscapes, portraits and flower studies. Humble, unambitious and seemingly self-sufficent, she nevertheless had considerable influence on New Zealand painting.

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Louise Henderson

Painter whose long and prodigious career left a huge and influential body of work, which is represented in all major public and many private collections in New Zealand.

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Catherine Spencer Bower

A legend in New Zealand art circles, she established a foundation to finance artists’ scholarships, to be funded from the sale of art in her estate. Her work is represented in both New Zealand and overseas public and private collections.

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Thelma Wood

While in Paris, Wood’s artistic medium changed from sculpture to silverpoint, in which sketches are drawn with a silver-pointed stylus. Wood’s work consists largely of erotically suggestive flowers and animals. Her sketches have been described as “fluid” and “sensual” by biographers noting, for instance, her representation of frequently fetishized objects like women’s shoes

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Mina Loy

She consorted with the major 20th-century avant-garde movements—Futurism, Dada, and Surrealism, and wrote poems, plays, and experimental prose; created drawings, paintings, sculptures, and assemblages; designed lampshades, toys, Christmas lights, cleaning tools, and corselets.

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Peggy Guggenheim

After fleeing Nazi France in 1942, she opened the gallery Art of This Century in New York City. In 1943, Guggenheim held the first collection of the soon to be star of her gallery, Jackson Pollock.

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