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Edmund Gouldsmith Pool Near Adelaide c.1883-86. Oil on canvas. Collection of Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū, presented to the Gallery by the Canterbury Society of Arts, 1932
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John Gibb Bottle Lake 1882. Oil on canvas. Collection of Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū, presented to the Canterbury Society of Arts by W. Reece, 1902; given to the Gallery in 1932
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Sir Alfred East The Moon and the Manor House c.1894. Oil on canvas. Collection of Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū, bequeathed by Hayden R.I. Fraser, 1975
This exhibition is now closed
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.
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Date:
29 June 2019 – 8 March 2020 -
Curator:
Nathan Pōhio -
Exhibition number:
1085