Huka Falls, North Island, New Zealand

Location

Country: New Zealand
City: Wellington
Place: British High Commission

Charles Blomfield, a self-taught New Zealand artist, established his reputation by producing views of the Pink and White Terraces at Rotomahana, North Island, New Zealand. These terraces were destroyed by the eruption of the Terawera volcano in October 1886 and in response clients nostalgically demanded replicas of his terrace paintings. Examples of Blomfield's work were shown in the exhibition ‘Two Centuries of New Zealand Landscape Art’, held at Auckland City Art Gallery in 1990.

Places

New Zealand, Waikato River, Huka Falls

Subjects

topography, landscape C20th, tree, mountain, river, rock formation, waterfall

Materials & Techniques

canvas, oil, oil painting

Artist

Charles Blomfield (1848 - 1926)

Title

Huka Falls, North Island, New Zealand

Date

1903

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

height: 102.00 cm, width: 71.50 cm

Acquisition

Presented by the Commonwealth Institute, November 1962

Inscription

br: C.Blomfield / 1903

Provenance

Presented by the Commonwealth Institute in November 1962

GAC number

5946