Ivy Fife
Aotearoa New Zealand, b.1903, d.1976
Otira Railway
- c. 1947
- Watercolour
- Purchased 2020
- 340 x 400mm
- 2020/041
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Location: Monica Richards Gallery
Tags: mountains, railroads (infrastructure), railroad stations, utility poles, water tanks
Ivy Fife was a key member of the group later known as the Canterbury School, who strongly influenced each other in paying attention to buildings and industrial forms in familiar landscape surroundings. In this immaculately painted watercolour she expertly combined her facility in this medium with inventive construction, as a veering railway track swerves beyond the edges of the composition.
(From Here on the Ground, 18 May – 17 November 2024)