Margaret Stoddart
Aotearoa New Zealand, b.1865, d.1934
Roses
- 1901
- Watercolour
- Gift of R. J. Reynolds, 1991
- 750 x 875mm
- 91/2
Tags: flowers (plants), Impressionist (style), red (color), reflections (perceived properties), still lifes
About the artist
Margaret Stoddart, from The Weekly Press 9 June 1909
“I live out my own world & follow in the lives of Frances Hodgkins […] and other women painters”, wrote Rita Angus. One of these other painters was fellow Waitaha Canterbury artist Margaret Stoddart. Both Rita and Margaret developed a deep appreciation of botanical subjects in their practices, alongside their work as landscape painters. Their approach to watercolour couldn’t be more different, however: Margaret with her lively impressionistic approach contrasts with Rita’s accuracy and detail usually reserved for a botanical artist illustrating a scientific journal.
(Perilous: Unheard Stories from the Collection, 6 August 2022- )
Exhibition History
[I See Red, 5 December 2007 - 23 November 2008] (https://christchurchartgallery.org.nz/exhibitions/i-see-red)
‘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.
(I See Red, 5 December 2007 - 23 November 2008)