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Wellington
M T ('Toss') Woollaston1937
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
Auckland, New Zealand
Toss Woollaston described his recently completed Wellington in Art in New Zealand in 1937: 'That picture was a piece of almost spontaneous painting, and is not so much a likeness of Wellington as a symbol of my personal reaction to it. I must say I don't admire Wellington's domestic architecture, and as I looked over the scene I felt that I must express the actual chaos of Wellington's buildings by an almost abstract symbol of chaos.'
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- Title: Wellington
- Creator: M T ('Toss') Woollaston
- Creator Lifespan: 1910 - 1998
- Creator Nationality: New Zealand
- Creator Gender: Male
- Creator Death Place: Upper Moutere, New Zealand
- Creator Birth Place: Taranaki, New Zealand
- Date Created: 1937
- Subject: Wellington, New Zealand
- Place Part Of: New Zealand
- Physical Dimensions: w482 x h432 mm (Without frame)
- Artist biography: Sir Mountford Tosswill (Toss) Woollaston was born in Toko, Taranaki in 1910. He studied at Canterbury School of Art. His career as a painter spanned almost 60 years and he is widely regarded as one of New Zealand’s most important artists. In 1979, he was knighted – the first New Zealand painter to receive the honour. Woolaston died in 1998.
- Type: Painting
- Rights: Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, purchased 1960
- External Link: Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
- Medium: oil on paper mounted on cardboard
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