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Summertime, Arthur’s Pass

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Summertime, Arthur’s Pass

This landscape, painted about 1945 by Grace Butler, depicts Mt Rolleston in the Arthur’s Pass region. Butler and her husband owned a cottage near the pass, and she used it as a base to make many paintings of this high-country environment.

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Christchurch Art Gallery - Te Puna o Waiwhetu

by Grace Butler

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John Wilson, Canterbury places – Porters Pass to Arthur’s Pass, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/artwork/10252/summertime-arthurs-pass (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by John Wilson, published 2 March 2009, updated 17 August 2015.