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Olivia Spencer Bower : making her own discoveries / Julie King.
Fine Arts Library ND1107.5.B69 K56 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- King, Julie, 1945- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Spencer Bower, Olivia, 1905-1982.
- Spencer Bower, Olivia.
- Women painters--New Zealand--Biography.
- Women painters.
- Painters--New Zealand--Biography.
- Painters.
- New Zealand.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 207 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Christchurch, New Zealand : Canterbury University Press, 2015.
- Summary:
- In this, the first book to consider Olivia Spencer Bower's life and work, art historian Julie King offers, through a lively and impeccably researched text and a selection of watercolours, paintings, drawings, prints and illustrations, an evocation of one of the most important artists New Zealand has produced.
- Contents:
- Foreword / John Coley
- Introduction
- An artist's daughter: family, childhood and youth
- An art student in Europe, 1929-1931
- An artist in Canterbury, 1932-1939
- Leaving Canterbury: Auckland and the Hokianga, 1940-1948
- Christchurch, 1949-1962
- Going to England and coming home, 1963-1982
- Afterword
- The Olivia Spencer Bower Foundation / Malcolm Ott
- Recipients of the Olivia Spencer Bower Foundation Award.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9781927145074
- 1927145074
- OCLC:
- 933433032
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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