MacNab, Donald George, 1912-1996 :Browning Street saga. [19]31.

Shows the old Napier Post Office on the corner of Shakespeare Road and Browning Street, burning. An elderly woman at the right is helped by two fireman. A man in white uniform stands at the centre. Two prisoners clear rubble at the left.

Notes accompanying the painting indicate that the elderly woman had walked down the hill past the fire and was dazed and blistered. The prisoners who helped were later released for this work, except for one who escaped and was later recaptured and returned to prison.

Reproduced as a postcard (at E-592-073)

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, 420 x 680 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..