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Michael Smither New Zealand, 1939–Boy and Dolphin 1969oil on hardboard, 1210 x 602 mmOn long-term loan to The Suter Art Gallery Te Aratoi o Whakatū Michael Smither researched and painted a series of humans with a dolphin after being commissioned to do a cover image for Maurice Shadbolt’s novel This Summer’s Dolphin. Smither said, ‘I went through a steep […]

Brian StrongNew Zealand, 1945– Lake Series 10, Rotoiti 1974oil on canvas, 1820 x 1505 mmCollection of The Suter Art Gallery Te Aratoi o Whakatū: purchased with the assistance of the Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council in 1976. ACC: 430 Brian Strong grew up in Nelson and studied at Canterbury University. His early career was as an art teacher

Enga WashbournNew Zealand, 1908–1988Untitled (from the verandah at Speargrass Station) 1950swatercolour on paper, 376 x 440 mmCollection of The Suter Art Gallery Te Aratoi o Whakatū: gifted by Anne Rush in memory of her mother Adele in 2007. ACC: 1043 This painting is the view from the artist’s farmhouse verandah at Speargrass Station. Washbourn and her husband Gerald

Sir Mountford Tosswill (Toss) Woollaston New Zealand, 1910–1998Kiln near Riwaka 1971watercolour on paper, 268 x 348 mmCollection of The Suter Art Gallery Te Aratoi o Whakatū: gifted by the artist in 1979. ACC: 528 Toss Woollaston first came to the Nelson region as a teenager, looking for rural work. After studying in Christchurch and Dunedin, and spending

Sir Mountford Tosswill (Toss) Woollaston New Zealand, 1910–1998View from Takaka Hill 1976–78oil on board, 1210 x 1510 mm Collection of The Suter Art Gallery Te Aratoi o Whakatū: purchased by the Bishop Suter Art Gallery Trust Board through the Dorothy Annie Artmore Bequest, with the assistance of the Queen Elizabeth II Art Council of New Zealand in