Eana Blythe Jeans New Zealand, Britain, 1890-1969
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About Eana Blythe Jeans
Born in Australia in 1890, Eana Jeans arrived in New Zealand in 1894. She studied at the Dunedin School of Art, Barn Studio Dunedin and at Slade School, London in the early 1930s. A watercolourist, she is best known for her bush watercolours and seascapes. Eana Jeans died in 1969 and a retrospective of her work, Landscapes Near and Distant was held at the Marshall Seifert Gallery in Dunedin Central in 1984.
In our database, 204 works by Eana Jeans are listed as being offered for sale, the earliest in 1988, of which 149 (73%) were sold. The highest price recorded for the artist is $1,138 for Lake and Mountain Scene sold by Dunbar Sloane in August 1997. This year one work has been offered for sale. Works by Eana Jeans are held by the Auckland Art Gallery.
Eana Blythe Jeans is listed in the following standard biographical references:
- McGahey, Kate. The Concise Dictionary of New Zealand Artists Painters Printmakers Sculptors, Gilt Edge Publishing, Wellington, New Zealand, 2000. Page 133
- The Find New Zealand Artists web site: a database of artist names that directs researchers to the rich resources found in New Zealand's libraries, art society exhibition histories and published sources.
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