Master of San Miniato [active 15th C.] Italian Madonna and Child with Pomegranate c.1470. Tempera and gold on wood. Collection of the Dunedin Public Art Gallery. Gifted 1955 by Archdeacon F H D Smythe.
Hendrik Goltzius [1558-1616] Dutch After Bartholomeus Spranger [1546-1611] Flemish. Judith and Holofernes Engraving. Collection of the Dunedin Public Art Gallery. Purchased 1991 with funds from the Dunedin Public Art Gallery Society.
Frances Hodgkins [1869-1947] New Zealand Woman and Child c.1912. Watercolour and charcoal. Collection of the Dunedin Public Art Gallery. Bequeathed 1956 by Mr Percy Hodgkins, the artist’s brother.
Robert Nettleton Field [1899-1987] British/New Zealand. Miss Eileen Service c 1928. Oil on plywood. Collection of the Dunedin Public Art Gallery. Bequeathed 1990 by Mrs Eileen L Soper [née Service].
William Dobell [1899-1970] Australian White Lace Dress 1946. Oil on hardboard. Collection of the Dunedin Public Art Gallery. Purchased 1968 with funds from the Dunedin Public Art Gallery Society
Elizabeth Kelly [1877-1946] New Zealand Miss Edith May. Oil on canvas. Collection of the Dunedin Public Art Gallery. Purchased 1940 with funds from the John Edmond bequest.
Evelyn Page [1899-1987] New Zealand Portrait of Valmai Moffett 1933. Oil on canvas. Collection of the Dunedin Public Art Gallery. Gifted 1966 by Valmai Moffett in memory of her son Donn.
Madonna to Modern
Women of the Collection
26 May 2007 - 29 July 2007
A walk around this circular gallery and down the ramp to the bottom is a walk through five hundred years in the representation of women in the Dunedin Public Art Gallery’s collection. Along the way idealised, always beautiful faces and bodies and virtuous attitudes will look familiar; but look closely and you will see subtle changes. It is perhaps in the modern era and at the hand of women artists that you will see images of woman become more real, and her beauty and outlook become something of her own creation.