Margaret Stoddart
Aotearoa New Zealand, b.1865, d.1934
Roses
- Presented to the Gallery by Miss R. J. Reynolds, 1991
- Watercolour
- 750 x 875mm
- 91/2
- 1901
Tags: Impressionist (style), flowers (plants), red (color), reflections (perceived properties), still lifes
About the artist
Margaret Stoddart, from The Weekly Press 9 June 1909
For the exhibition I See Red (5 December 2007 - 23 November 2008) this work was displayed with the following label: ‘My love is like a red, red rose’ goes the old Scottish song. Red roses are a well-known symbol for true love. Thank Robbie Burns for the song, and Margaret Stoddart for this bowl of overflowing roses, where the red is the red of a living, beating heart, a red that unfolds into full bloom, promising love that will last.
Related reading: Margaret Stoddart: Nature's Artist
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Exquisite Treasure Revealed
Canterbury Museum holds two albums compiled by Diamond Harbour artist Margaret Stoddart. The older of the two, containing images featured in this Bulletin, and itself currently exhibited in the Gallery, covers the period 1886–96. The album is handsomely bound in maroon, and stamped M.O.S. in gold. It contains a sort of travelogue by way of black and white photographs set amongst decorative painting, mostly of native flora, with some locality and date information.