This exhibition is now closed
Closer: Old Favourites, New Stories
16 December 2017 –
26 August 2018
New perspectives on ten of the Gallery’s best-loved paintings.
Who were the refugees in Frances Hodgkins’s Unshatterable? Why does the young woman in the Wizard’s Garden look so troubled? Where did the special peonies in Jan Franz van Son’s Flowers in a Vase come from? And what was Gerrit Dou’s seventeenth-century Physician peering at in the glass flask? From the bustling port of Lyttelton to a wintery Dutch funeral, Closer uncovers the stories behind ten of the Gallery’s most famous paintings—told through new video, audio and photographs.
My Gallery
Collection works in this exhibition
Curator:
Peter Vangioni
Lara Strongman
Felicity Milburn
Ken Hall
Exhibition number: 1052
Presented by
Historical Collection Art Partner
Collection works in this exhibition (10)
Mountain Stream, Otira Gorge
Petrus van der Velden
Helen Graham Chalmers and her mother
Frank Bramley
Flowers in a vase
Jan Frans van Son
Unshatterable (Belgian Refugees)
Frances Hodgkins
Lyttelton Harbour, N.Z. Inside the Breakwater
John Gibb
The Physician
Gerrit Dou
Burial in the Winter on the Island of Marken [The Dutch Funeral]
Petrus van der Velden
Consent
Thomas Gotch
La Lecture de la Bible
Henriette Browne
In the Wizard’s Garden
George Dunlop Leslie
Related
Frank Bramley room card
This room card was created for the exhibition Closer 16 December 2017 – 26 August 2018.
Petrus van der Velden room card
This room card was created for the exhibition Closer 16 December 2017 – 26 August 2018.
Petrus van der Velden room card
This room card was created for the exhibition Closer 16 December 2017 – 26 August 2018.
Gerrit Dou room card
This room card was created for the exhibition Closer 16 December 2017 – 26 August 2018.
Henriette Browne room card
This room card was created for the exhibition Closer 16 December 2017 – 26 August 2018.
John Gibb room card
This room card was created for the exhibition Closer 16 December 2017 – 26 August 2018.
Jan van Son room card
This room card was created for the exhibition Closer 16 December 2017 – 26 August 2018.
Thomas Cooper Gotch room card
This room card was created for the exhibition Closer 16 December 2017 – 26 August 2018.
George Dunlop Leslie room card
This room card was created for the exhibition Closer 16 December 2017 – 26 August 2018.
Frances Hodgkins room card
This room card was created for the exhibition Closer 16 December 2017 – 26 August 2018.
film
George Dunlop Leslie - In the Wizard's Garden
Lara Strongman talks about George Dunlop Leslie and his painting 'In the Wizard's Garden'.
film
Petrus van der Velden - The Dutch Funeral
Elric Hooper recalls a childhood visit to the Robert McDougall Art Gallery
Interview
Gold, Chalk and Rabbit-Skin Glue
Bulletin talks to Anne-Sophie Ninino, a French-trained conservator based in Ōtautahi Christchurch with international experience in museum conservation and a specialisation in gilding, frame and heritage restoration.
My Favourite
Petrus van der Velden's The Dutch Funeral 1875
If I don’t watch at least three films a week, my life starts to feel unsettled. Five is a good average to see me through, but above all at least one of these films must be terrifying.