George Thompson Pritchard New Zealand, 1878-1962
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About George Thompson Pritchard
George Thompson Pritchard was born in Havelock North, Hawkes Bay, New Zealand and began his artistic education at the University of Auckland Elam School of Fine Art followed by study at the Melbourne Academy of Fine Arts, the South Kensington School of Art (London), the Julien Academy (Paris) and the Van der Veldt Academy (Amsterdam). He migrated to the United States in 1906, living in San San Francisco and Milwaukeee but moved back to the UK during World War I where he worked in a Munitions factory. He moved back to the United States (via Canada) after World War I eventually settling in California, where he continued to paint landscapes, seascapes and to teach until 1946, when he retired. He died in California in 1962.
Our database lists 7 works offered for sale at auction by this artist, of which 4 were sold.
George Thompson Pritchard 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 203
- 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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