House in a Summer Garden
Maker
Stoddart, Margaret Olrog (b.1865, d.1934)
Production date
1928
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Description
Typifying Margaret Stoddart's garden works, House in a Summer Garden is either of a hill property near Margaret’s own home at 15 Hackthorne Road, Cashmere, where she lived from 1912, or on Clifton Hill where she often painted in the 1920s.
Like many of her garden paintings it is colourful. The mass of colour is built up in vigorous broad strokes over an underlying structure of wet washes, dissolving one into the other. The house is almost buried behind a cascade of brilliantly coloured blooms. The garden subject provided Stoddart with not only the opportunity to explore the growth of introduced domestic plants which contrasted strongly with native flora, but also to vent her robust colour sense.
Like many of her garden paintings it is colourful. The mass of colour is built up in vigorous broad strokes over an underlying structure of wet washes, dissolving one into the other. The house is almost buried behind a cascade of brilliantly coloured blooms. The garden subject provided Stoddart with not only the opportunity to explore the growth of introduced domestic plants which contrasted strongly with native flora, but also to vent her robust colour sense.
Production date
1928
Collection type
Media/materials
Watercolour on paper
Accession number
FG1983.30.1
System ID
149415
Current Rights
No known copyright restrictions
Organisation Credit Line
Collection of the Forrester Gallery. Id 149415
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