The poet

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The poet

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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

Collection

Te Papa Collections Online

Description

This essay originally appeared in New Zealand Art at Te Papa (Te Papa Press, 2018). Although Gordon Walters is best known for his koru paintings first developed in the 1950s, he made important works as early as the 1940s. Of these, The poet is arguably the best known. Reproduced in the Yearbook of the arts in New Zealand in 1947, the year it was painted, it was a radical work for its time. Rather than depicting an observed subject, like a scenic landscape or a bowl of flowers — still the mai...

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Image

Date created

1947

Creator

Gordon Walters

URL

https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/37924

Related subjects

oil paint / graphite / canvas / paintings / South Island / Abstract / Surrealist / Primitivist / Māori / Rock art / poetry / Wellington

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