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Brunette

Brunette
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Brunette
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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
Collection
Te Papa Collections Online
Description

With her right hand placed gently over her heart, this woman draped in blue has the air of a modern-day Madonna. Lois White gives an idealised serenity to Pauline Kahurangi Yearbury, her spirited colleague at the Elam School of Fine Arts. White’s refined technique and focus on the figure set her apart from most of her New Zealand contemporaries. However, her stylised portraits and allegorical paintings fell out of fashion in the 1950s as abstraction emerged. Another two decades would pass bef...

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Date created
1947
Creator
A. Lois White
URL
https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/38602
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Portraits / Women / oil paint / hardboard / paintings / Auckland

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