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Date

1931

By

MacNab, Donald George, 1912-1996

Reference

A-354-019

Description

Shows a view looking along the street which has rubble down both sides. A tobacconist's pole has fallen down amongst the rubble at the right, and the electric wires have fallen since the scene in the picture at A-354-018. Five workers, their mouths covered by handkerchiefs, are trying to sort or clear the debris, while the fire rages in the buildings in the background.

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, 189 x 300 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..

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Format

1 watercolour(s), Works of art, Watercolours, Watercolour, 189 x 300 mm (sight), Orientation: Horizontal image