Kōrero: Perceptions of the landscape

Toss Woollaston in his studio, 1991

Toss Woollaston in his studio, 1991

Toss Woollaston was one of the 20th-century painters who introduced modernist art to New Zealand. Although he painted portraits and figure studies, his major subjects were the hills and skies of Nelson, the West Coast and Taranaki. Like his friend, the artist Colin McCahon, he went beyond a realistic approach to landscape and drew on the post-impressionism of European painters like Cézanne.

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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
Photograph by Peter McLeavey

Permission of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Te tuhi tohutoro mō tēnei whārangi:

Jock Phillips, 'Perceptions of the landscape - Landscape and identity: 1930s–1960s', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/mi/photograph/14408/toss-woollaston-in-his-studio-1991 (accessed 29 March 2024)

He kōrero nā Jock Phillips, i tāngia i te 24 Sep 2007