DOI issue:
No. 152 (November, 1905)
DOI article:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20713#0188
Studio-Talk
“EVENING IN NEW ZEALAND”
BY FRANK WRIGHT
He has always been a
devoted and unwearying
student of Nature, and his
pictures show what accurate
knowledge, clear percep-
tion, and genuine capa-
city he has wrung from his
study in her school. All
her phases appeal to him.
He feels the loneliness oi
the silent virgin forest,
overpowering in its beauty
and mystery—the peaceful
repose of the lonely bush
creek, set with pensive tree-
ferns. He seems to use a
magic brush to catch the
ing department of a firm
of lace manufacturers, but
on the death of his father
his indentuers were can-
celled to allow him to come
with the family to New
Zealand. Here for a num-
ber of years he passed
through the often usual
colonial experience of
earning his bread in a
manner not to his liking,
meanwhile painting in his
leisure time and finding in
it his greatest and almost
sole enjoyment. “mill valley, new Zealand” by frank wright
(In the Auckland Art Gallery)
spirit of what he paints.
A bushman could name his
trees : the stately uplift of
the kihikatea, the heavy
swing of the titree head,
the airy grace of the nikau,
the gnarled satanic growth
of the ancient puriri, all
come with a charmed life
from his fingers. And this
is no small thing in New
Zealand landscape, where
the variety of trees is so
great.
This artist’s water-colour
landscapes are dainty lyrics
“EVENING IN NEW ZEALAND”
BY FRANK WRIGHT
He has always been a
devoted and unwearying
student of Nature, and his
pictures show what accurate
knowledge, clear percep-
tion, and genuine capa-
city he has wrung from his
study in her school. All
her phases appeal to him.
He feels the loneliness oi
the silent virgin forest,
overpowering in its beauty
and mystery—the peaceful
repose of the lonely bush
creek, set with pensive tree-
ferns. He seems to use a
magic brush to catch the
ing department of a firm
of lace manufacturers, but
on the death of his father
his indentuers were can-
celled to allow him to come
with the family to New
Zealand. Here for a num-
ber of years he passed
through the often usual
colonial experience of
earning his bread in a
manner not to his liking,
meanwhile painting in his
leisure time and finding in
it his greatest and almost
sole enjoyment. “mill valley, new Zealand” by frank wright
(In the Auckland Art Gallery)
spirit of what he paints.
A bushman could name his
trees : the stately uplift of
the kihikatea, the heavy
swing of the titree head,
the airy grace of the nikau,
the gnarled satanic growth
of the ancient puriri, all
come with a charmed life
from his fingers. And this
is no small thing in New
Zealand landscape, where
the variety of trees is so
great.
This artist’s water-colour
landscapes are dainty lyrics