Houses and a street, Bibury
Edith Collier, Artist
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About the Work
A
large
number
of
key
works
in
the
collection
of
the
Edith
Collier
Trust
were
completed
during
time
she
spent
studying
and
working
with
the
Australian
artist
Margaret
MacPherson,
in
Bonmahon,
Ireland
in
1914
and
1915.
Collier
made
two
trips
to
Bonmahon,
and
wrote
to
her
parents:
‘A
grand
place
for
painting.
Models
of
all
sorts,
seascapes,
and
landscape
without
going
far’.
In
1915,
she
accompanied
Margaret
MacPherson
and
twenty-one
fellow
art
students
to
Bonmahon
for
a
stay
that
lasted
from
March
to
September
or
October.
The
fishing
village
offered
an
ideal
location
for
a
summer
school,
as
students
could
live
at
relatively
low
cost
with
local
families.
Edith was encouraged by Macpherson to use the people of Bonmahon as her most significant subject matter. Her family also eagerly awaited new insights into the life and people of the village. Edith’s sister Dorothy reported on how Peasant Woman of Bonmahon was received in Wanganui: ‘Dad likes your Irish Biddy very much, quite proud of you . . .’ In this work, as with other portraits completed in Bonmahon, Edith takes the traditional if not clichéd nineteenth-century theme of the worthy but impoverished peasant, and applies to it a new Post-Impressionist vision.
(from exhibition text Edith Collier Selected Irish Works Feb 2012 by Greg Donson)
Edith was encouraged by Macpherson to use the people of Bonmahon as her most significant subject matter. Her family also eagerly awaited new insights into the life and people of the village. Edith’s sister Dorothy reported on how Peasant Woman of Bonmahon was received in Wanganui: ‘Dad likes your Irish Biddy very much, quite proud of you . . .’ In this work, as with other portraits completed in Bonmahon, Edith takes the traditional if not clichéd nineteenth-century theme of the worthy but impoverished peasant, and applies to it a new Post-Impressionist vision.
(from exhibition text Edith Collier Selected Irish Works Feb 2012 by Greg Donson)
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Measurements
Frame 615 x 514 x 27mm
Image 133 x 133mm
Image 133 x 133mm
Media
Woodcut on toned paper
Description
Framed, glazed and matted woodcut print on toned paper of cottages with a stone wall along a path. Standard wooden frame, glazed with "polyglaz", matted with 1979/10/11, 1979/10/4 and 1979/10/12.
Credit Line
Collection of the Sarjeant Gallery Te Whare o Rehua Whanganui. Gift of Gordon Collier, 1979.
Collection Type
Permanent collection
Acquisition Date
12 Jul 1979