Leonard Hampden Booth New Zealand, 1879-1974
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About Leonard Hampden Booth
Born in Christchurch in 1879 Leonard Booth was an in influential early 20th New Zealand painter, art teacher, psychotherapist, cartoonist and illustrator. He studied at the Canterbury College School of Art from 1894 to 1901 and in 1903 he was appointed to the staff of the School of Art as an instructor in 'Painting and Drawing from Life and the Antique' a position he held until 1933 when he retired due to ill-health. Although he continued to draw and paint after the 1930s, he rarely exhibited his work. By the early 1950s Booth had become a psychotherapist. Booth's connection to Australia is that he helped illustrate On Our New Selection, the portrayal of the lives of pioneers of the Australian bush written by Steele Rudd, and contributed cartoons to the Bulletin and other Sydney publications. A retrospective exhibition of his work was held at the Christchurch Art Gallery in 2000.
In our database, 7 works by Leonard Booth are listed as being offered for sale, the earliest in 2003, of which 5 (71%) were sold. The highest price recorded for the artist is $5,015 for Reclining Nude Woman Asleep in a Deck Chair sold by Webb's in September 2003. No works have been offered for sale this year, and the last sale we have recorded for the artist was in 2013. Works by Leonard Booth are held by the Christchurch Art Gallery and Museum Of New Zealand.
Leonard Hampden Booth 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 25
- Dictionary of Australian Artists Online, an online resource for biographical data about Australian artists, designers, craftspeople and curators.
- 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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