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Two Hundred Years of New Zealand Paint by Gil Docking

A.H & A. W. Reed Published date: 1982

From front jacket flap

IN 1769 Cook's Endeavour was off Tolaga Bay on the east coast of New Zealand's North Island. Here Sydney Parkinson, an English painter engaged by Banks to record botanical discoveries, made a pen-and-wash study of A Perforated Rock. This work is the starting-point of Gil Docking's zoo-year survey of New Zealand painting, which concludes with Brent Wong's Abandoned Settlement (1969), a title that is itself a silent commentary on the two centuries that separate it from Parkinson's sketch. Gil Docking, Director of the Auckland City Art Gallery, divides his subject into four main periods beginning with that of Exploration, during which British and French painters of varying degrees of ability recorded what they saw during brief visits. The Settlement period follows, beginning with Augustus Earle (1793-1838) and ending with J.B. C. Hoyte (1835-1913), during which New Zealand's leading painters were, to a man, European-born and seeing the country as a new and quite unfamiliar land. The period of Transition covers the 1870s to the 1920s, and the author opens it with W. Hodgkins (1855-98), who arrived in Dunedin from England via Australia in 1860.

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