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What’s On
Edith Collier: Early New Zealand Modernist
A rare opportunity to view the work of one of Aotearoa New Zealand’s most adventurous and experimental modernist artists.
Made in the Pacific: A Collection of Tāoga
A selection of Pacific tāoga from the Canterbury Museum in conversation with contemporary artworks that highlight the continued strength in culture and traditional art forms.
Mark Adams: A Survey | He Kohinga Whakaahua
A comprehensive survey spanning the artist's career.
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Collection
![Untitled [Rider with Dogs and Man in Sleeping Bag]](/media/cache/6a/7e/6a7e1082644716dec69293fd1f69116c.jpg)
Juliet Peter Untitled [Rider with Dogs and Man in Sleeping Bag]
In the second half of the 1940s, Juliet Peter became more widely known as an illustrator through her role for the Department of Education’s School Publications branch and commissions by the New Zealand Listener. As this series of black and white sketches indicate, her interest in rural life informed the texts she chose to illustrate. A 1948 profile of the artist reported that her work often included field trips: “Miss Peter does not do all her drawings in the office. Last week she went out stalking a milkman and his horse to get sketches for a story […] another day she walked through half a mile of sticky mud to make drawings inside a wool-shed for the shearing chapter in Te Awa Awa.”
He Kapuka Oneone – A Handful of Soil (from August 2024)
Notes
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Exhibition
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Three paintings by Tony Fomison, Philip Clairmont and Allen Maddox.
Notes
Chaliapin
In our leatest exhibition Bad Hair Day there is a caricature of the singer Chaliapin in the role of Don Quixote. Chaliapin visited New Zealand in 1926 but it seems likely that this drawing originates with the film Don Quixote, directed by Georg Pabst, in which Chaliapin starred.
This film opened in Christchurch in September 1934
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Mischa Levitzki
Our exhibition Bad Hair Day includes a caricature by Leo Bensemann of the Ukrainian-American pianist Mischa Levitzki (1898-1941), who toured New Zealand in 1921 and again in 1931.
Reviews suggest he was a superlative technician and a poor communicator and his popular reputation has not really lasted. Vladimir Horovitz was scathing: 'Just fingers, and you cannot listen only to fingers. There is a difference between artist and artisan. Levitzki was an artisan.'
Listen below to his performance of his own Valse de Concert, opus 1, recorded 23 May 1924.
