Absolutely lovely watercolour landscape

Signed John L Moore 1936

Measures approx 49 cm x 40 cm.

This has been in the family for the past 50 years or so.

Also known as John Lysaught Moore.

Born in 1897, John L Moore was a New Zealand artist who studied under Dorothy Richmond and Linley Richardson and later in London and Rome. On his return to New Zealand in the late 1920s, Moore travelled around New Zealand with artist Esmond Atkinson on camping painting trips. His work is represented in the National Gallery, Wellington, and six woodcuts were published in the Oxford 'New Zealand Encyclopaedia'. He died in 1965