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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.
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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
In 1927, a group of local artists including Viola Macmillan Brown Notariello, Evelyn Page and Ngaio Marsh became founders of The Group, which was intended as a more contemporary exhibiting outlet than the long established Canterbury Society of Arts in Ōtautahi Christchurch. The artist lived with her father, Canterbury College professor John Macmillan Brown, on the slopes of Cashmere hills, not far from where this tranquil, semi-rural scene was painted. Across the Plains is one of eleven works she exhibited with The Group in 1931. The old brickworks complex visible in this painting was located in Port Hills Road (now Centaurus Road in the suburb of Huntsbury).
(From Here on the Ground, 18 May – 17 November 2024)