LANDSCAPE ART IN NEW ZEALAND 



serious claim to be ranked as one of our leading landscape painters. 

 Receiving his early instruction from Nairn he has since worked steadily 

 and quietly along his own lines, disdaining all technical tricks and other 

 adventitious aids, and uninfluenced by the various fads and crazes that 

 from time to time have been the rage. Working chiefly in oil, Sedg- 

 wick is most successful in the portrayal of the pearly, misty effects of 

 eveningat Silverstream, which abounds in arboreal compositions of the 

 nature immortalized by Corot. Amongst others of this group is James 

 MacDonald(p. 98), the artist of the Dominion Museum, who has only 

 recently turned his attention to landscape in colour, though his black- 

 and-white work and etchings are well known. 



Amongst the Canterbury artists may be ranked A. W. Walsh (p. 107), 

 though he has been for some time resident in Auckland. Undoubtedly 

 he is one of our most representative water-colourists, and it is as a 

 sketcher that he deserves special mention. There is a wonderful outdoor 

 quality, freshness, and vigour in his work. C. F. Kelly (pp. 95 and 97) 

 is an artist who learnt his craft in New Zealand. A close student of 

 nature, his pictures are free from that triteness and preciseness that 

 characterize the studio-made article. He is a painter of the open spaces 

 as exemplified in Canterbury. His subjects are simply and broadly 

 treated, and the tonality of his work oftentimes most beautiful. He has 

 an able ally in his wife (p. 97), who, however, is more widely known for 

 her sympathetic and attractive portrait and figure compositions. 

 One of the more recent Canterbury artists working equally in water- 

 colour and oil is W. S. Wauchop (p. 106), who owed his early training 

 and influence to Walsh, of whose work he is a great admirer. He is an 

 excellent example of the progress which a New Zealand artist can make 

 with no other assistance than the company and help of other New 

 Zealand artists. The poetic appeal that the landscape makes to Wauchop 

 is very evident in his work, which is full of feeling and quality and of 

 high technical excellence. 



Miss M. O. Stoddart's water-colours (p. 105) have long been a feature 

 of our exhibitions and she has exhibited on ten occasions in the Paris 

 Salon. Her work possesses remarkable quality and feeling, and though 

 generally painted in a low key with sober tones has a great charm of 

 colour. Her early instruction was at the Christchurch Art School, but 

 she later received lessons from eminent men in Cornwall and Paris. 

 Menzies Gibb, the President of the Canterbury Art Society (p. 92), is 

 a well-known worker in oils and water-colours, and several of his pic- 

 tures hang in the permanent collection in Christchurch. He is a 

 realistic painter of nature, generally in its happiest moods. The son 

 of a well-known marine painter, he has spent most of his time in New 

 Zealand and received much of his early training here. 

 The list of Christchurch artists would be incomplete without mention 



