Doris Lusk
 1916-1990
Tent Series 5, Midday Hawea 1972
oil and acrylic on canvas
titled, signed and dated 1972 in felt tip pen in artist's hand on stretcher formerly in the collection of Professor Rhodes, Christchurch
Image Size:
755 x 1210mm
(29.7 x
47.6in)
Stock Number: 26298
Price category between $10,000 and $19,999
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A friend and painting companion of Colin McCahon, Canterbury artist Doris Lusk was one of the foremost figures of her generation, significantly extending the expressive modes of New Zealand landscape painting. Julie King summarizes Lusk's distinctiveness as an artist as "an ability to invest her surroundings with associative meanings, and her continuous exploration of pictorial structure, processes, materials and techniques. Lusk's paintings of the early 1970s are marked by increasing technical innovation and an expressive experimentation with the medium of acrylic on canvas. Midday Hawea (Tent Series 5) is a playful inversion of her earlier iconography, where unexpected architectural forms appear as found objects in the landscape. Here the viewer looks out of, rather than at, the man-made "structure": the family tent becomes a disjunctive window on the land, a dialectic of interior/exterior richly explored in Lusk's seminal Arcade Awning series of 1975.
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