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Endless Light

29 June 2019 –
8 March 2020

Historic European artworks that embrace the thrill-filled moments which art and light provide.

Artists are great observers of light. Endless Light draws out works from the historic collection that express, reveal or simply acknowledge something of what light does. Although predominantly focused upon romanticism, it also includes some late-nineteenth-century impressionist works indicate a move towards modernism in the early twentieth century.

From electrifying European sunsets and calming moonrises over English pastures to the brooding silver clouds of Otira. Artists Claude-Joseph Vernet, John Gibb and Petrus van der Velden and more make hard-won skills appear light and almost effortless when representing the world around them.

Curator:
Nathan Pōhio

Exhibition number: 1085

Collection works in this exhibition (22)

Flood in the Otira Gorge

John Gibb

View In Akaroa With Cattle

William Watkins

On the Beach, New Brighton

Grace Butler

Evening Glow

Grace Butler

Native Village By A Lake

Frank Wright

Twilight, Venice

Terrick John Williams

Gathering Beet, Village of Rijnsburg

Petrus van der Velden

Landscape, Cottage And Boat

Artist Unknown

Cottage Interior with Kitchen Maid

Artist Unknown, Gabriel Metsu

Untitled [Surrey landscape]

Benjamin Williams Leader

A Cow Drinking

Artist Unknown, Aelbert Cuyp

Among the Sandhills [also known as In the Sandhills, Jutland]

Adrian Stokes

A Wooded Landscape with Peasants on a Path and an Angler at a Stream

Meindert Hobbema

Idyllic Landscape

Thomas Barker

Pool Near Adelaide

Edmund Gouldsmith

A Scottish Hillside

William Menzies Gibb

Bottle Lake

John Gibb

Lingering Leaves

Charles Herbert Eastlake

The Moon and the Manor House

Sir Alfred East

Canterbury landscape with a nor’west sky

Petrus van der Velden

Mount Rolleston and the Otira River

Petrus van der Velden

The End Of The Chapter

George Paul Chalmers