Friday, 17 March 2023

Great Aunt Bern and her painting of Dusky Sound - Displayed in the Suter Art Gallery

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Dusky Sound

Artist
Bernice CURRIN (New Zealander, d.1962): Artist
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Object Detail


Description
A bright mountain scene; a succession of high peaks in the central region, calm water in the midground and trees framing the scene in the foreground.
Medium
Oil on canvas
Measurements
Dimensions: 0 - Whole: 1035 x 730mm
Credit line
Bequeathed from the estate of A. Hill in 1962
Accession number
365

Brief Life History of Bernice Annie Sophia

When Bernice Annie Sophia Currin was born on 8 April 1882, in Waimea South, Nelson, Nelson, New Zealand, her father, Francis Currin, was 33 and her mother, Annie Louisa Lavinia Hunt, was 24. She died on 6 August 1960, in Wakefield, Tasman, New Zealand, at the age of 78, and was buried in Tasman, New Zealand.

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