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Anne McCahon
Annie (Anne) Eleanor McCahon ''née'' Hamblett (11 October 1915 – 30 December 1993) was a New Zealand artist and illustrator. She was married to fellow artist Colin McCahon. Early life Anne Hamblett was born in Mosgiel, the daughter of the Reverend W. A. Hamblett and Ellen Hamblett (''née'' West). She attended Otago Girls' High School in Dunedin and then studied at King Edward Technical College from 1934 to 1937. In her second year she was awarded a Callander Scholarship. Her fellow students included Toss Woollaston, Rodney Kennedy, Doris Lusk, Len Castle, and Colin McCahon. Some of them, including Lusk, Woollaston and McCahon, would often make painting excursions into the countryside, cementing life-long friendships. Dunedin at the time was the centre for art in New Zealand, with Woollaston describing it as, "the most artistically enlightened place in New Zealand. A city that was looking at artists unheard of in Christchurch – Matisse, Picasso, Cézanne." He added that "t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mosgiel
Mosgiel () is an urban satellite of Dunedin in Otago, New Zealand, fifteen kilometres west of the city's centre. Since the re-organisation of New Zealand local government in 1989 it has been inside the Dunedin City Council area. Mosgiel has a population of approximately as of . A nickname for Mosgiel is "The pearl of the plain". Its low-lying nature does pose problems, making it prone to flooding after heavy rains. Mosgiel takes its name from Mossgiel Farm, Ayrshire, the farm of the poet Robert Burns, the uncle of the co-founder in 1848 of the Otago settlement, the Reverend Thomas Burns (minister, born 1796), Thomas Burns.A popular, though probably apocryphal, local theory is that the extra "s" was dropped at a time when the cost of telegrams was calculated by the number of characters. The name of the Dunedin suburb of Roslyn (named for Rosslyn in Scotland) is similarly truncated. These two places were sites of major woollen mills – as was the town of Milton to the south, whe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
