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Marcus King

Painting New Zealand for the world

Peter Alsop and Warren Feeney

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Marcus King’s achievements across commercial and fine art, over 50 years from 1920 to 1970, are unmatch…
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Marcus King’s achievements across commercial and fine art, over 50 years from 1920 to 1970, are unmatched by any New Zealand artist. Arguably the country’s most viewed artist – exhibiting to a global audience in the millions – King captured the New Zealand landscape as a leading Impressionist painter and, as a commercial artist, branded the country as an alluring tourism utopia and productive agricultural and industrial paradise.

King’s vision was fresh, expansive and aspirational; a grand outlook grandly delivered, whether in bold Impressionist paintings or his arresting documentary and landscape murals, including The Signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, one of New Zealand’s most recognisable and reproduced paintings. Driven by his relentless love of painting, King was a pioneer advocate for professionalising and popularising New Zealand art, and he undoubtedly shaped the country’s identity at a formative time.

Altogether, it would be reasonable to assume King’s story was well known. Yet, until now, his art and life have remained a mystery. Now is the hour for Marcus King, and for reconsidering his distinct fusion of art, design and advertising, and his significant contribution to New Zealand commerce and culture.

Gad he was good! Marcus was a genious; the very best in what he did, both paintings and posters alike. I’m delighted this book has been created to share what I was lucky enough to live through. I will always stop in wonder at Marcus’s works. For me, there is nobody who can paint quite like Mr King. Alan Collins

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Weight 3.00000000 kg
ISBN

9781927213704

Pages

366

Size

240 x 300 mm

Format

Hardback with jacket

Author

Peter Alsop and Warren Feeney

Published

Nov 2015

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