Grannie O'Ready's Kitchen
Edith Collier, Artist
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About the Work
"This
is
a
very
interesting
work
by
this
famous
Whanganui
artist
that
captures
the
scene
in
rich
colours,
beautifully.
The
donors
of
this
work
Geoffrey
and
Di
Martin
were
personal
Auckland
friends
of
mine
and
I
travelled
with
Geoffrey
from
Auckland
when
he
made
the
gift
to
the
Sarjeant
Gallery
at
a
special
function
when
Bill
Milbank
was
the
Director.
The
Martins
donated
this
lovely
painting
in
memory
of
Richard
Priest,
Geoffrey’s
great
friend
and
former
Whanganui
boy
from
the
celebrated
Priest
cricketing
family."
Donald Trott, Executive Chairman of the NZ Opera School, for the Dec 2019 instalment of the My Choice exhibition series.
Donald Trott, Executive Chairman of the NZ Opera School, for the Dec 2019 instalment of the My Choice exhibition series.
Measurements
Frame 611 x 720 x 37mm
Image 495 x 604mm
Image 495 x 604mm
Media
oil on canvas on board
Description
Framed interior painting of a kitchen with some hens in the foreground. Wooden frame, painted grey.
A large number of key works by Edith Collier 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)
A large number of key works by Edith Collier 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)
Credit Line
Collection of the Sarjeant Gallery Te Whare o Rehua Whanganui. Gift of Geoffrey and Di Martin,1998, in memory of Richard Alec Priest. This work was conserved with the generous support of Colin and June Whitlock in 2004.
Collection Type
Permanent collection
Acquisition Date
28 Sep 1998
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1998/23/1