The Expatriates

Exhibition: 4 April 1985 - 16 June 1985

The history of New Zealand painting is set against a broad background of expatriatism. During the last two decades of the nineteenth century and the first three of the twentieth century, many artists left these shores to seek an identity and a maturity in their work which they hoped could be sustained in a climate where there was more understanding.

Many of the artists included in this exhibition were among those who chose to remain away, and become New Zealand expatriates.

• Kenneth Ballantyne (1885 - 1961)
• Arthur Boyd (1860 - 1949)
• James Cook (1904 - 1960)
• Rhona Haszard (1901 - 1931)
• Frances Hodgkins (1869 - 1947)
• Eleanor Hughes (1882 - 1959)
• Francis McCracken (1879 - 1959)
• Douglas McDiarmid (1922 - )
• Owen Merton (1887 - 1931)
• Frederick Porter (1883 - 1944)
• Cedric Savage (1901 - 1969)
• James Scott (1877 - 1932)
• Maud Sherwood (1880 - 1956)
• Sydney Thompson (1877 - 1973)

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