The hilltop

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The hilltop

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Description

This essay originally appeared in New Zealand Art at Te Papa (Te Papa Press, 2018). When The hilltop was exhibited in Wellington in 1913, it was hailed as a model of impressionist style. According to one reviewer, Hodgkins had ‘fairly let herself go … in the way of colour, and the light is … positively scintillating’.1 This painting captures the freshness of a summer day, sunny yet breezy, the figures arranged in a charming tableau: the standing girl in white rests a hand on her hip, skirts ...

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Image

Date created

circa 1908

Creator

Frances Hodgkins

URL

https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/43278

Related subjects

Hills / Clouds / Women / girls / summer / watercolour / graphite / crayon wax / gouache / paper / watercolours / works on paper / Impressionist

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