Foreword / John Coley -- Introduction -- An artist's daughter: family, childhood and youth -- An art student in Europe, 1929-1931 -- An artist in Canterbury, 1932-1939 -- Leaving Canterbury: Auckland and the Hokianga, 1940-1948 -- Christchurch, 1949-1962 -- Going to England and coming home, 1963-1982 -- Afterword -- The Olivia Spencer Bower Foundation / Malcolm Ott -- Recipients of the Olivia Spencer Bower Foundation Award.
Summary:
In this, the first book to consider Olivia Spencer Bower's life and work, art historian Julie King offers, through a lively and impeccably researched text and a selection of watercolours, paintings, drawings, prints and illustrations, an evocation of one of the most important artists New Zealand has produced.
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