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The Group 1927-1977
1931
Download PDFThe Group Show catalogue 1931.
Kindly supplied by the Macmillan Brown Library, University of Canterbury.
Items MB194-12-7-1 and MB194-12-7-2
This catalogue is incomplete but it is the only one known to have survived. Other artists known from press reviews to have exhibited at this exhibition are Margaret Anderson (1903-1997), Willliam Baverstock (1893-1975), James Cook (1904-1960), Robert Nettleton Field (1899-1987) and W H Montgomery (1866-1958).
Details of these reviews can be found here.
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Viola Macmillan Brown Notariello Across the Plains
Painted in morning light, evidently in spring, this attractive view captures the semi-rural outskirts of Christchurch from the lower slopes of the Huntsbury foothills, looking north towards distant Mount Grey. The painting’s elevated vantage point, together with its soft, restricted palette and decorative qualities link it to the work of artists such as Rhona Haszard and Sydney Lough Thompson.
Viola Macmillan Brown Notariello was born in Christchurch in 1897, the daughter of Professor John Macmillan Brown and Helen Connon. She studied at Canterbury College School of Art from c.1915-1922, together with her friend Evelyn Page and close relative Ngaio Marsh. After graduating, she exhibited in Christchurch from the late 1920s with The Group. She emigrated after meeting an Italian tenor on tour in New Zealand with Dame Nellie Melba, and they married in England in 1936. She continued her art studies in Europe and exhibited occasionally in England.
(Turn, Turn, Turn: A Year in Art, 27 July 2019 – 8 March 2020)