Frances Hodgkins
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Frances Mary Hodgkins was a New Zealand painter chiefly of landscape, and for a short period was a designer of textiles. Born in Dunedin, she was educated at Dunedin School of Art, then became an art
Frances Hodgkins
Frances Hodgkins with her brother-in-law, William Field
Pleasure Garden, 1932 watercolour
Still life eggs, tomatoes and mushrooms
Ellen von Meyern
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Ellen von Meyern was a New Zealand artist who is remembered for her portraits of Maori people.
Frances Hodgkins
…earned her the New Zealand Academy of Arts' prize for painting from life in 1895 (Head of an Old Woman). Hodgkin's portraits of Māori are, like many by Ellen von Meyern and Gottfried Lindauer, associated with symbolic portraits of demure females with or without a child. In 1895–96 Hodgkins attended the Dunedin School…
Ellen von Meyern in her studio circa 1910.
Maiden
Richard Seddon
Maori women and children cooking at Geothermal Hangi Pit