Bohemians of The Brush: Pumpkin Cottage Impressionists

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Sat 3 Jul ’10, 10:00am–4:30pm	Saving
Sun 5 Sep ’10, 10:00am–4:30pm	Saving

Where: Tauranga Art Gallery, Cnr of Wharf and Willow Streets, Tauranga Show map

Restrictions: All Ages

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Bohemians of the Brush: Pumpkin Cottage Impressionists tells the little-known story of how James Nairn united modern artists from throughout the country in the 1890s and helped redefine New Zealand painting. The exhibition brings alive New Zealand's most famous artists' retreat, the legendary Pumpkin Cottage at Silverstream.

The exhibition presents plein-air and impressionist paintings drawn from Expressions Arts and Entertainment Centre's Pumpkin Cottage Paintings Collection. Artists include James Nairn, Mabel Hill, John Baillie, George Butler, Mary Elizabeth Tripe, Frances Hodgkins, Girolamo Nerli and their followers Fred Sedgwick, Edward Fristrom and Nugent Welch. Their bright and painterly images of intimate and honest moments in time also capture the characteristic colours of the New Zealand landscape.

Nairn led the New Zealand movement towards impressionism as these artists rebelled against the insincerity of the dominant romantic landscape imagery, popularised by John Gully's grand paintings such as of Mitre Peak. The exhibition also conveys through contemporary quotes, poetry, photographs and music how bohemian the artists at Pumpkin Cottage and the rebel Wellington Art Club exhibitions were regarded at the time.