IMAGE
MacNab, Donald George, 1912-1996 :Seaward side of Masonic Hotel, the morning after the earthquake and fire. [19]31.
- Date
- 1931
- By
- MacNab, Donald George, 1912-1996
- Reference
- B-155-020
- Description
Shows one remaining wall, two storeys high, of the brick hotel. There is debris in the left foreground.
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, 272 x 405 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, 272 x 405 mm (sight), Orientation: Horizontal image
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