Photographer unidentified. Artist Frances Hodgkins at the time she had an exhibition of her work at the Hampstead Gallery, London. c.1920. (detail) Gill Shadbolt Collection, Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, N.Z. [F- 67624-1/2]
FRANCES HODGKINS Dordrecht c.1908. Watercolour on paper. Collection of the Dunedin Public Art Gallery. Purchased 1913 by public subscription.
FRANCES HODGKINS Washerwomen, Brittany c.1912. Watercolour and charcoal on paper. Collection of the Dunedin Public Art Gallery. Bequeathed 1956 by Mr Percy Hodgkins, the artist’s brother.
FRANCES HODGKINS Summer c.1912 Watercolour and charcoal on paper. Collection of the Dunedin Public Art Gallery. Purchased 1913 by public subscription.
FRANCES HODGKINS Mr and Mrs Moffat Lindner and Hope 1916. Tempera on linen on hardboard. Collection of the Dunedin Public Art Gallery. Purchased 1955 with funds from the Dunedin Public Art Gallery Society.
FRANCES HODGKINS Double portrait 1922. Oil on canvas. Charles Brasch Bequest, 1973. Hocken Collections, Uare Taoka o Hakena, University of Otago.
FRANCES HODGKINS Ibiza Harbour c.1933. Oil on canvas. Collection of the Dunedin Public Art Gallery. Given 1970 by the O’Sullivan Family, in memory of Irene Stanislaus O’Sullivan.
FRANCES HODGKINS Yudi Y Moro c.1936. Watercolour and bodycolour on paper. Collection of the Dunedin Public Art Gallery. Purchased 1970 with funds from the Dunedin Public Art Gallery Society.
FRANCES HODGKINS Still Life with Fruit Dishes c.1937. Oil on canvas laid on hardboard. Collection of the Dunedin Public Art Gallery. Given 1949 by a group of anonymous donors.
FRANCES HODGKINS Corfe Castle 1943. Oil on canvas. Collection of the Dunedin Public Art Gallery. Purchased 1967 with funds from the Dunedin Public Art Gallery Society.
Frances Hodgkins
Femme du monde
28 April 2009 - 26 July 2009
This exhibition brings together for the first time all of the paintings by Frances Hodgkins in Dunedin’s public collections. Comprising over seventy works of art and spanning a fifty-year period (from 1890 to 1945), Femme du monde reveals this artist’s immense skill at handling a diverse range of media and a rich variety of subject matter. It also provides a unique opportunity to evaluate, in a single take, the range and quality of the works held by this community, and highlights the enduring connection that Hodgkins’ has retained with Dunedin.
Although Hodgkins left Dunedin in 1901, only returning for temporary visits, many in her hometown keenly traced her travels and artistic development. Early in her career, Hodgkins showed a strength of character and dedication to her practice that belied her years, and it was not until she was truly established in the British art scene, that it became clear that Hodgkins had become a woman of the world.
This exhibition recalls the dedication of family, friends, patrons and collectors, who sought out and purchased key paintings by this artist throughout her career. It is only because of their efforts, that the Dunedin Public Art Gallery is able to bring such a substantial body of works together to celebrate the 140th anniversary of Hodgkins birth.
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