Arts commentator Courtney Johnston looks at the 150th anniversary of New Zealand painter Frances Hodgkins' birth, and an exhibition and several publications from the Auckland Art Gallery are the culmination of nearly a decade's work by one of our best art historians and communicators, curator Mary Kisler.
Also, the Spinoff has a new arts section - what'll it involve?
Frances Hodgkins, Untitled [The Watermelon Seller], circa 1903, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki,purchased 2007
Frances Hodgkins, At the Window, circa 1912, Art Gallery South Australia, South Australian Government Grant 1913
Frances Hodgkins, 1920, E H McCormick Papers, E H McCormick Research Library, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, gift of Linda Gill, 2015. Photo: Langfier Ltd, London.
Frances Hodgkins, mid-1930s, E H McCormick Papers, E H McCormick Research Library, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, gift of Linda Gill, 2015.
Frances Hodgkins, Harbour, South of France, circa 1931, courtesy of Mark & Louise Nelson, Sydney
Frances Hodgkins, The Edwardians, circa 1918, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, gift of Lucy Carrington Wertheim, 1969
Frances Hodgkins, Lancashire Family, 1927, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, purchased 1963
Frances Hodgkins, Bridesmaids, 1930, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, gift of Lucy Carrington Wertheim, 1948
Frances Hodgkins, Berries and Laurel, circa 1930, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, purchased with funds from the William James Jobson Trust, 1982
Frances Hodgkins, Red Jug, 1931, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, purchased 1982
Frances Hodgkins, Wings over Water, 1931–32, Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds Museums and Galleries, gift from the Contemporary Art Society, 1940. Photo: Leeds Museum and Galleries (Leeds Art Gallery) U.K./ Bridgeman Image
Frances Hodgkins, Spanish Jars, 1931-1935, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, gift of the Friends of the Auckland Art Gallery with funds from the Joy Marchant Bequest, 2016
Frances Hodgkins, Self Portrait: Still Life, circa 1935, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, purchased
1963
Frances Hodgkins, Cassis, circa 1920-circa 1921, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, purchased 1972
Frances Hodgkins, Evening, 1932-1933, courtesy of Catherine and Martin Spencer, Auckland
Frances Hodgkins, Houses and Outhouses, Purbeck, circa 1938, courtesy of the Northern Club, Auckland
Frances Hodgkins, Chairs and Pots, circa 1938, National Galleries of Scotland. Bequeathed by Miss Elizabeth Watt 1989
