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Revisiting Modernism: Group Exhibition

Past exhibition
27 September - 14 October 2023 Auckland City
Lois White, Tranquility, 1946

Lois White

Tranquility, 1946
oil on board
518 x 375mm
725 x 580mm framed
On Loan, Private Collection
A. Lois White (1903 – 1984) is an important though historically under-recognised artist. Born in 1903, she studied at Elam School of Fine Arts in the 1920s. In the 1930s...
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A. Lois White (1903 – 1984) is an important though historically under-recognised artist. Born in 1903, she studied at Elam School of Fine Arts in the 1920s. In the 1930s and 40s, her finessed and stylised paintings with their symbolic content had won her a significant national profile. Her work regularly featured in newspaper reproductions and art society shows. Though in the 1950s, her work slipped out of fashion and her practice started to wane. It wasn’t until 1977 that she had her first solo exhibition, when notable Wellington art dealer Peter McLeavey presented her work. Writer and curator Nicola Green states, “Considering her reputation from the 'thirties onwards, it is clear that White's work has not received the recognition that it deserves. It is also apparent that she has outdistanced the mediocrity generally associated with the New Zealand art of the period between the two world wars, and specifically associated with Elam under the directorship of A. J. C. Fisher.”

Tranquility, 1946, is stylistically aligned with some of White’s better-known, religion-inspired works of this era.
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Revisiting Modernism, 27 September - 14 October 2023, Gow Langsford Gallery, Kitchener St, Auckland, NZ
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