MacNab, Donald George, 1912-1996 :Reading earthquake news bulletin. [19]31.

MacNab, Donald George, 1912-1996 :Reading earthquake news bulletin. [19]31.
Date
1931
By
MacNab, Donald George, 1912-1996
Reference
B-155-019
Description

Shows a group of three men seated on a plank reading the news bulletin during a break in their recovery work. In the right foreground two hot billies are slung on a stick. In the left background is a wrecked car, and further off the background scene is of devastated buildings.

Title from accompanying slip of paper.

Other Titles - Don McNab

One of a series of paintings made by MacNab, an eighteen-year-old student at Napier Technical College, immediately after the earthquake. He worked day and night for two days, and daily thereafter, to make a pictorial record of the event (See "Dominion", 27 January 1989, page 6).

Quantity: 1 watercolour(s).

Physical Description: Watercolour, 280 x 438 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..

Access restrictions
Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
Format
1 watercolour(s), Works of art, Watercolours, Watercolour, 280 x 438 mm (sight), Orientation: Horizontal image
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