Group of Trees, Rotorua

Catalogue

Horizontal bands of green and brown at lower margin. Central group of trees, brown mass of trunks. Umbrella shaped canopy of tree, blue on right and yellow/green on left divided by vertical blue brushstrokes. Area of green middle right margin.

Date

1979

Object type

painting

Medium and materials

oil on canvas

Dimensions

image:445x320mm

frame:460x405mm

Place Made

Rotorua, New Zealand

Inscriptions

Verso Upper Centre label 340

Verso UL label artwork details

Verso Lower Centre (not in artist's hand) pencil 397

Provenance

Donated to the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, by H. F. V. Scales, 1979

Condition Report

Horizontal scratch across centre canvas

Courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Reference no. G-340

Current Collection

Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand

Current Location

Wellington, New Zealand

Keywords

oil painting landscape portrait format trees Rotorua New Zealand late work Rotorua Masonic Village

Title and date supplied by artist at time of donation, 1979.

Date confirms that this work was painted while Scales was a resident in the Rotorua Masonic Village, New Zealand, from 26 October 1978 until just before her death in January 1985.

Related work

Untitled [Masonic sketchbook 1] [BC119]