Fatbird

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Title

Fatbird

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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

Collection

Te Papa Collections Online

Description

This oil painting by Don Binney was painted in 1964 and exhibited in the artist's second solo exhibition, Donald Binney: Recent Paintings, at the Ikon Gallery in Auckland in October 1964. Fatbird is typical of Binney's paintings from 1963 and 1964. The paint surface is rough, not yet revealing the delicacy and variety of paint techniques that the he developed from 1965 onwards. The bird, a South Island tomtit (ngirungiru), and landscape are still visually connected, the curves and sweep of la...

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Format

Image

Date created

1964

Creator

Don Binney

URL

https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/574375

Related subjects

Birds / Landscape paintings / Hills / oil paint / hardboard / paintings / Auckland

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