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became a major feature of Woollaston’s work. He earned his living as a Rawleighs salesman, although the pressure of the job gave him little time for painting. Concerned at Woollaston being side-tracked by his art, the Rawleighs management once cautioned him, that while ‘art might be the cream on your
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and the two became lovers and remained life-long friends after Woollaston’s marriage to Edith Alexander who had also been an art student in Dunedin. Kennedy went on to become a driving force of avant garde arts in Dunedin and one of the country’s leading drama producers. He was an early supporter and
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described it as having, ‘a greater control, with the ability to use colour in a manner suggestive of luminosity.’ From the outset Woollaston painted alongside landscapes, figurative subjects which were largely of his immediate family and friends. Art historian Tony Green described his early work as,
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McCahon recalls, ‘I met the artist himself some years later; I saw the actual Nelson landscape and better understood the discipline imposed by the painter on his subject
I still remember the revelations of that first exhibition’ It was the beginning of a long association and friendship but, as the
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to the New Plymouth City Council as a purchase for the collection. The Mayor D. V. Sutherland responded by claiming the artist would be, ‘laughing all the way to the bank.’ It was one of many attacks by the Council on purchases during O’Reilly’s tenure. In his spirited defence O’Reilly told the
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from 1981 to 1990 and currently manages the Toss Woollaston Trust. Edith Woollaston died in 1987 following a severe stroke, aged 83. After her death, Woollaston became a close friend of Anne Martindell who had been the United States Ambassador to New Zealand from 1979 to 1981. They spent time
697:. 'The antidote to an easy, wistful idealism about life and art is a thorough realisation of the implacable enmity which exists between an artist who retains the intensity of his calling, and the bourgeoisie. . .’ wrote Woollaston. He also wrote for the journal 371:. In his autobiography he wrote, ‘the pictures are full of a new kind of space ... created in terms of the two dimensions of the picture-plane itself
’ The move to Greymouth brought a more expressionistic linear approach to his work. Art writers 380:‘the nearest to a radical rejection of older representational norms
with their appeal to the authority of a universal natural feeling, instead of an appeal to techniques of accurate transcription of the visible. A good example of this is 274:
By the 1960s Woollaston was finally able to paint full-time and earn a living from his work assisted by a second Fellowship grant. In 1962 this second grant allowed a trip to Europe and the United States. In 1968 the Woollastons moved to
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Woollaston began a series of studies of Māori schoolboy Rodney Gutteridge, in preparation for a painting in 1961. A selection of these studies accompanied by Woollaston’s observations was published by Blackwood & Janet Paul Ltd.
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Woollaston sets the tone with the first line of this autobiography, ‘My Mother wished I had been a daughter.’ The book tells Woollaston’s story from birth to 1936. The book was published by William Collins Publishing (Auckland).
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for things already assured by repetition
’ The same year McCahon dedicated the painting 1720: 388:, when director of the Auckland City Art Gallery, called it ‘the first modern portrait in New Zealand.’ Woollaston’s interest in portraits continued throughout his painting career and, as noted by curator and writer 669:
Council, ‘Our policy is to buy contemporary work and Woollaston is one of the leading contemporary painters. I don’t want to argue about it.’ As with a number of other contentious purchases, O’Reilly got his way.
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two men were rarely in the same place at the same time, much of it was conducted by mail. In 1959 Woollaston took the unusual step of publicly supporting McCahon by reviewing his friend’s work in the exhibition
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Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth. To celebrate New Plymouth’s Centennial the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery invited Woollaston to spend a month in the city making paintings to be exhibited in the gallery.
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coffee Rawleighs is your bread and butter’. An annual Fellowship awarded by the Federation of New Zealand Art Societies in 1958 enabled him to travel to Australia where he studied old Master paintings at the
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and the rotation of planes and foreshortening of foregrounds this revealed appealed to the young painter. Woollaston had deeply admired Cezanne since he had seen reproductions as a boy in
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Although committed and talented, after leaving art school Woollaston was still searching for an independent way to express himself. He found it in 1935 in the teachings of the German
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and built a house. It was a location with ‘romantic associations’ as Woollaston had lived there briefly as an eighteen-year-old at a time when he was bent on becoming a poet.
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In the sixties, when Woollaston travelled overseas, he submitted a regular series of observational commentaries on the art he had seen and how it affected him. His series
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Gallery, Wellington. Hitchings later said of the exhibition, ‘The impact of these two painters was tremendous—and particularly together! Nothing like it had been seen!’
472:, Wellington. This was Woollaston’s first exhibition at Peter McLeavey’s gallery. He would have 18 more exhibitions during his life-time with the Wellington dealer. 244:
in Christchurch for the first time, becoming a member in 1940. He went on to participate in 27 exhibitions of The Group and was included in the 1977 retrospective.
939: 693:. It started publication in 1934. In the April 1936 issue Woollaston contributed, in what would become his typical frank and provocative style, 559:(toured). The critic JNK said of Woollaston's work, ‘There is quiet spiritual strength in these big, spacious, ruggedly painted compositions.’ 247:
As a full-time orchard worker Woollaston was exempted from enlistment in World War II and spent most of the forties in the Māpua area. After
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was featured in The Press from 1962 to 1963. A typical column describes his walk to the Prado in Madrid where he spends time with Goya’s
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Originally presented as an autobiographical lecture to the Auckland Gallery Associates and published by the Auckland City Art Gallery.
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and was a regular letter writer to both publications and to local newspapers. Poetry was also a lifelong passion.
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art critic’s comment that it was, ‘
 not a picture of anything,’ was strongly rebuffed by Woollaston’s review in
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He told his readers that he found ‘Goya, while abating nothing of their fate, had bathed them in compassion.’
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In 1977 the Director of the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery in New Plymouth, Ron O’Reilly, proposed Woollaston’s
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to Woollaston. Woollaston publicly supported McCahon again the following year when the younger artist’s work
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Throughout his career Woollaston was a frequently published writer of art criticism and commentary.
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Colin McCahon. a question of faith: Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, 30 August - 10 November 2002 ..
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along with a number of drawings he had made of works from the Gallery’s collection including
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Woollaston, M.T. (29 April 1936). "M.T.Woollaston: Life, Art and the Bourgeois Manifesto".
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Bloem, Marja; Browne, Martin; McCahon, Colin; Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, eds. (2002).
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in 1963, he introduced more complexity into his paintings. This can clearly be seen in
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Whiting, Cliff; Murphy, Bernice; McCormack, John; Sotheran, Cheryll, eds. (1992).
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Fraser, Ross (Summer 1983). "Ross Fraser: a Conversation with Helen Hitchings".
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McCahon first saw Woollaston’s work while he was at high school. In his essay
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Young, David (10 November 1979). "Toss Woollaston: Distance Looks His Way".
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The invention of New Zealand: art & national identity, 1930 - 1970
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Barnett, Gerald; Woollaston, Toss; National Art Gallery, eds. (1991).
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collector of Woollaston’s work and became the long-term partner of
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in 1910, Woollaston attended primary school at Stratford, and then
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His first solo exhibition in Dunedin organised by Rodney Kennedy.
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New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage Te Manatu Taonga.
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1960 Association of New Zealand Art Societies Fellowship Award.
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1958 Association of New Zealand Art Societies Fellowship Award.
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Barton, Tina; Bywater, Jonathan; Curnow, Wystan, eds. (2016).
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Lady painters : the flower painters of early New Zealand
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Takashimaya Department Store, Tokyo, Japan. Organised by the
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JNK (7 December 1962). "New Paintings by M. T. Woollaston".
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Colin McCahon. Vol. 2: Is this the promised land?: 1960-1987
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won the Hay’s Art Competition. The public outcry including
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Peter McLeavey: the Life and Times of a New Zealand Dealer
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Woollaston has works in the following public collections:
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The Far-away Hills: a Meditation on New Zealand Landscape.
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to study with R N Field at the art school attached to the
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Now Showing: A History of the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery
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New Zealand Painting 1940-1960: Conformity and Discussion
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MT Woollaston – Colin McCahon: a Retrospective Exhibition
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Analytical study of Poussin's 'Crossing of the Red Sea'.
2019:"New Zealand Painting 1940-1960: Conformity and Decent" 1509:. Sydney: The Museum of contemporary Art p. 150. 757:, Auckland. The collection includes 81 of Woollaston’s 467:
M. T. Woollaston: Paintings, Drawings and Watercolours
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People educated at Stratford High School, New Zealand
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JNK (6 January 1959). "Eight New Zealand Painters".
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Bloomsbury South: the arts in Christchurch 1933-1953
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Contemporary Painting in New Zealand: Twelve Artists
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artist. He is regarded as one of the most important
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Content/Context: a Survey of Recent New Zealand Art
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Content/Context: a Survey of Recent New Zealand Art
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William Collins Publisher Ltd (Auckland). 771:Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu. 411: 292:travelling in the United States together. 2246:(3rd supplement). 16 June 1979. p. 27. 1507:Headlands: Thinking through New Zealand Art 199:. As Woollaston noted in his autobiography 2292: 2278: 2155: 2088: 1936:"N.Z. Painting, Ceramics On Show In Tokyo" 1489: 1474: 462:Durham Street Art Gallery, Christchurch. 37:Toss Woollaston in his Riwaka studio, 1979 31: 2109:"An Artist Abroad—VIII Goya At The Prado" 1766: 1597: 1494:. Collins Bros & Co Ltd. p. 156. 1479:. Auckland City Art Gallery. p. 246. 1427:Two hundred years of New Zealand painting 1281: 1226: 2236: 1697: 1490:Keith, Hamish; Brown, Gordon H. (1969). 1256:. 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Index


Toko, Taranaki
Upper Moutere
Philip Woollaston
Anna Caselberg
John Caselberg
New Zealand
New Zealand
Toko
Taranaki
Stratford Technical High School
Canterbury School of Art
Christchurch
Margaret Stoddart
modernism
Dunedin
King Edward Technical College
Rodney Kennedy
Charles Brasch
Māpua
Nelson
Colin McCahon
Ursula Bethell
Charles Brasch
Ron O'Reilly
The Group
the
Greymouth
West Coast
National Gallery of Victoria

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