Peter McIntyres New Zealand (Autographed First Edition)
PETER McINTYRE'S NEW ZEALAND
After the resounding, continuing success of his autobiography, The Painted Years, Peter McIntyre was invited to make a painter's appreciation of New Zealand for publication in book form-to record New Zealand scenes and people in a series of specially-painted landscapes and informal por-traits, supported by black-and-white sketches and relatively brief text.
This commission was given because Peter McIntyre holds a position of distinction as a New Zealand painter, and because he loves his country and has wandered widely and restlessly through it, sketching and painting as he went, searching always for the scene or figure that would most aptly exemplify the mood and spirit of the place and the time.
From these painting journeys he has built up a splendid appreciation and experience of New Zealand landscape, but for Peter McIntyre's New Zealand he travelled New Zealand again, selecting many new subjects and completing, after prodigious efforts, a series of fifty-six new paintings, none of which have previously been reproduced or exhibited.
Individually, the pictures are intimate studies of life or landscape. As a collection, they present a great composite portrait of this country, as seen through the eyes of a New Zealand artist whose judgement of his native land has been clarified and sharpened by years of painting in Europe and North Africa, the East and the Antarctic.
In this book are pictures that present or typify almost every facet of the New Zealand scene, varying in their range from informal drawings of Maori children to great landscapes, painted in oils and meticulously reproduced to meet the artist's own high requirements.
Peter McIntyre makes it plain that this is
" essentially a book of pictures... a book of places and people rather than one of social observation and criticism". Within this framework you see his vision of New Zealand flowing into life, with each picture described in his own words and supplemented by graphic pen-and-ink sketches.
1964 First Edition
Dust Cover Very Good, two small tears. Pages Excellent
PETER McINTYRE'S NEW ZEALAND
After the resounding, continuing success of his autobiography, The Painted Years, Peter McIntyre was invited to make a painter's appreciation of New Zealand for publication in book form-to record New Zealand scenes and people in a series of specially-painted landscapes and informal por-traits, supported by black-and-white sketches and relatively brief text.
This commission was given because Peter McIntyre holds a position of distinction as a New Zealand painter, and because he loves his country and has wandered widely and restlessly through it, sketching and painting as he went, searching always for the scene or figure that would most aptly exemplify the mood and spirit of the place and the time.
From these painting journeys he has built up a splendid appreciation and experience of New Zealand landscape, but for Peter McIntyre's New Zealand he travelled New Zealand again, selecting many new subjects and completing, after prodigious efforts, a series of fifty-six new paintings, none of which have previously been reproduced or exhibited.
Individually, the pictures are intimate studies of life or landscape. As a collection, they present a great composite portrait of this country, as seen through the eyes of a New Zealand artist whose judgement of his native land has been clarified and sharpened by years of painting in Europe and North Africa, the East and the Antarctic.
In this book are pictures that present or typify almost every facet of the New Zealand scene, varying in their range from informal drawings of Maori children to great landscapes, painted in oils and meticulously reproduced to meet the artist's own high requirements.
Peter McIntyre makes it plain that this is
" essentially a book of pictures... a book of places and people rather than one of social observation and criticism". Within this framework you see his vision of New Zealand flowing into life, with each picture described in his own words and supplemented by graphic pen-and-ink sketches.
1964 First Edition
Dust Cover Very Good, two small tears. Pages Excellent
PETER McINTYRE'S NEW ZEALAND
After the resounding, continuing success of his autobiography, The Painted Years, Peter McIntyre was invited to make a painter's appreciation of New Zealand for publication in book form-to record New Zealand scenes and people in a series of specially-painted landscapes and informal por-traits, supported by black-and-white sketches and relatively brief text.
This commission was given because Peter McIntyre holds a position of distinction as a New Zealand painter, and because he loves his country and has wandered widely and restlessly through it, sketching and painting as he went, searching always for the scene or figure that would most aptly exemplify the mood and spirit of the place and the time.
From these painting journeys he has built up a splendid appreciation and experience of New Zealand landscape, but for Peter McIntyre's New Zealand he travelled New Zealand again, selecting many new subjects and completing, after prodigious efforts, a series of fifty-six new paintings, none of which have previously been reproduced or exhibited.
Individually, the pictures are intimate studies of life or landscape. As a collection, they present a great composite portrait of this country, as seen through the eyes of a New Zealand artist whose judgement of his native land has been clarified and sharpened by years of painting in Europe and North Africa, the East and the Antarctic.
In this book are pictures that present or typify almost every facet of the New Zealand scene, varying in their range from informal drawings of Maori children to great landscapes, painted in oils and meticulously reproduced to meet the artist's own high requirements.
Peter McIntyre makes it plain that this is
" essentially a book of pictures... a book of places and people rather than one of social observation and criticism". Within this framework you see his vision of New Zealand flowing into life, with each picture described in his own words and supplemented by graphic pen-and-ink sketches.
1964 First Edition
Dust Cover Very Good, two small tears. Pages Excellent
