Jeanne MacAskill New Zealand, 1931-2014
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About Jeanne MacAskill
Born in Motueka, New Zealand in 1931, Jeanne MacAskill studied at Victoria College at the University of Wellington, the teachers colleges in Wellington and Dunedin in New Zealand and at Chelsea Art School in London for 5 years and lived in France and the UK for 18 years. Best known as a realist landscape painter, her later works show a Maori cultural interest, while other works show an abstract influence. She exhibited with the New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts from 1974. In 2004 she was made a member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for her services to the arts and community and in 2009 she received The Governor Generals award for services to the New Zealand Acedemy of Fine Arts.
The earliest auction listing we have for Jeanne MacAskill is in 1998 and in total 47 works by the artist have been offered for sale, of which 39 (83%) were sold. This year one work has been offered for sale.
Jeanne MacAskill 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 155
- 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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