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7 items matching Gretchen Albrecht
Nocturne (A Measure Of Time)
Artist:ALBRECHT Gretchen (b.1943)
Title of work:Nocturne (A Measure Of Time)
Date of work:1991
Medium:Oil On Canvas
Size:1540 x 2445
Description:In 1990 Gretchen Albrecht began a series of Nocturnes in which she deserted the hemisphere shaped canvas in favour of the oval. Each one was placed on the floor to be painted, the artist beginning... read more »
Orchard (For Keats)
Artist:ALBRECHT Gretchen (b.1943)
Title of work:Orchard (For Keats)
Date of work:1985
Medium:Oil And Acrylic On Canvas
Size:1830 x 3660
Description:From 1981, the year in which she held the Frances Hodgkins Fellowship at Otago University, and throughout the 1980s, Gretchen Albrecht concentrated on a series of shaped canvases known as... read more »
Snake Charmer
Artist:ALBRECHT Gretchen (b.1943)
Title of work:Snake Charmer
Date of work:1976
Medium:Acrylic On Canvas
Size:1500 x 1820
Description:This painting is a variant of the acrylic washed works of the middle 70s most of which allude more or less directly to natural phenomena. Here, by contrast, the allusion is to sound - specifically to... read more »
Cerise Sky
Artist:ALBRECHT Gretchen (b.1943)
Title of work:Cerise Sky
Date of work:1973
Medium:Acrylic On Canvas
Size:1750 x 1220
Description:Gretchen Albrecht was born in Auckland where she has continued to live and work. In 1964 she graduated with a Diploma with honours from the University of Auckland School of Fine Arts ( Elam ) where... read more »
Untitled
Artist:ALBRECHT Gretchen (b.1943)
Title of work:Untitled
Date of work:1974
Medium:Watercolour
Size:1110 x 740
Description:This solemn watercolour relates directly to the artist's mid-70s acrylics on canvas, many of which were preceded by watercolour exercises. Fluidity of treatment is the hallmark of both.
Duality
Artist:ALBRECHT Gretchen (b.1943)
Title of work:Duality
Date of work:1981
Medium:Oil, Wax On Paper
Size:1100 x 695mm
Garden
Artist:ALBRECHT Gretchen (b.1943)
Title of work:Garden
Date of work:1971
Medium:Watercolour
Size:720 x 545
Description:This early watercolour is part of Auckland artist Gretchen Albrecht's extensive garden series in which she adopted imagery not unlike Pat Hanly's of the same period ( see the collection's Hanly... read more »

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