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Date

1930

By

MacNab, Donald George, 1912-1996

Reference

B-155-022

Description

Shows a fashionably dressed woman and child in the right foreground beside a new car, with the new nurses' home, of Spanish Mission style, in the background.

This painting won the New Zealand Technical College art prize, where contestants were required to depict a modern building,modern car, and modern fashion.

Seven nurses lost their lives when this building was destroyed in 1931.

Other Titles - Don McNab

Quantity: 1 watercolour(s).

Physical Description: Gouache, 268 x 330 mm (sight)

Transfers: A video from the same provenance, in which Donald McNab talks about painting a collection of pictures after the earthquake, is held at OHColl-0794-1..

Additional description

Alternative form available: This image was reproduced on a postcard (see E-592-069, and E-592-071)

Access restrictions

Partly restricted - Digital content available only in Katherine Mansfield Reading Room

Format

1 watercolour(s), Works of art, Watercolours, Gouache, 268 x 330 mm (sight), Orientation: Horizontal image