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On display
Lake Wakatipu by Edward Friström
Edward Friström Lake Wakatipu Oil on particle board. Collection of Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū, purchased 1971
Art Bite
Past event
Meet in the exhibition
free
Join art historian Dorle Pauli as she discusses Edward Friström's painting, Lake Wakatipu, on display on the first floor.
Art Bites are 20-minute lunchtime presentations on a single work on display, presented by our staff, guides and guest speakers.
There's a new Art Bite to enjoy each Friday at 12.30pm.
Related reading: Free event
Exhibition
Our Collection: 19th and 20th Century New Zealand Art
3 March 2018 – 3 March 2020
Our lively new historical collection exhibitions explore Māori architecture, colonial portraiture, early landscape painting and mid-century abstraction.
Collection
Edward Friström Lake Wakatipu
Originally from Sweden, Edward Friström arrived in New Zealand via Australia in 1903. He is thought to have been self-taught and, like James Nairn, he favoured plein-air painting. There is a strong sense of immediacy in Friström’s painting, a vibrancy that lead one reviewer to comment on his work at the time as being that of a ‘fanatic’ who rejected ‘any detail whatsoever’. Friström’s work stands out in New Zealand painting of the early twentieth century for its refreshing sense of spontaneity and vigour. (March 2018)
