The canoe prow

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Title

The canoe prow

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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). Buck Nin’s The canoe prow shows the impact of two tertiary experiences: his initial training at Elam School of Fine Arts in Auckland (and the aerial views of painter and lecturer Robert Ellis, who taught there), and his subsequent time in 1965–66 at the University of Canterbury School of Fine Arts, where he encountered the expressionist brushwork and palette of lecturer Rudi Gopas. Many of the symbols and muc...

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Format

Image

Date created

1965

Creator

Buck Nin

URL

https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/493601

Related subjects

Landscapes (Representations) / Canoes / particle board / oil paint / oil paintings / works of art / New Zealand

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