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    Ivy Fife

    Aotearoa New Zealand, b.1903, d.1976

    Railway Crossing, Canterbury

    • c. 1945-c. 1946
    • Oil on canvas on board
    • Purchased 1994
    • 365 x 414mm
    • 94/51
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    Tags: fences, gates, grade crossings, ladders, landscapes (representations), mountains, railroads (infrastructure), signs (declatory or advertising artifacts), snow (precipitation), trees, utility poles, words

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    Exhibition History

    Archibald Nicoll Twilight Auckland Waterfront 1909. Oil on canvas board. Collection of Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū, purchased 1984
    Our Collection: 19th and 20th Century New Zealand Art
    Doris Lusk Canterbury Plains from Cashmere Hills 1952. Oil on canvas board. Collection of Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū 1974
    In the Vast Emptiness
    Image: uploads/2022_07/94_51.jpg

    Related reading: In the Vast Emptiness

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    On the level

    On the level

    A chilly trip to the mountains to identify Ivy Fife's level crossing

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    Canterbury Landscape by Colin McCahon

    Canterbury Landscape by Colin McCahon

    In 2014 we purchased an important landscape work by Colin McCahon. Curator Peter Vangioni speaks about this new addition to Christchurch Art Gallery’s collection.

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    Mountains, Cass by Rita Angus

    Mountains, Cass by Rita Angus

    This article first appeared as 'The wonders of waterolours' in The Press on 11 August 2015.

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    100 years of the Cass field station

    100 years of the Cass field station

    Last weekend the University of Canterbury Biology Department celebrated the 100th anniversary of the field station at Cass with a symposium on Cass followed up with a field trip to the station.

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    Wainui - to the west of the long harbour

    Wainui - to the west of the long harbour

    "I like Wainui, quaint, charming, rather like a Pieter Bruegel subject with the haymaking in progress." Rita Angus to Douglas Lilburn, 1943

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    CASS

    CASS

    This week 77 years ago Rita Angus visited Cass on a sketching holiday with Louise Henderson and Julia Scarvell that resulted in several paintings including the Christchurch Art Gallery's Cass.

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    CASS

    CASS

    André Hemer's exhibition CASS is well worth a visit if you are near the Christchurch Art Gallery's space above NG on Madras street.

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    Another nor’wester descends on Canterbury

    Another nor’wester descends on Canterbury

    Some people fear them, others revel in the unforgiving dry heat – love them or hate them the legendary Canterbury nor'wester is one of the defining features of this region in the summer months and there is a real doozy blowing outside at the moment.

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    Heart in the high country: Austen Deans (1915 - 2011)

    Heart in the high country: Austen Deans (1915 - 2011)

    For Austen Deans, OBE, painting was an expression of his love of the outdoors and, in particular, the Canterbury high country.

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    Sutton high-fives McCahon

    Sutton high-fives McCahon

    Nothing made it into a W.A. Sutton painting by accident, and the white line that rises diagonally through the sky in Plantation Series II is no exception.

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    Exquisite Treasure Revealed

    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. 

     

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