Hill Town

Artist: Frances Hodgkins (1869—1947)
Date: c1907–08
Place: The Netherlands
Media: watercolour on watercolour sketching board
Dimensions: 368 × 270 mm
Catalogue number: 2023–1–14
Credit line: The Field Collection, Toi Mahara

The painting is undated. E H McCormick dates it to 1902, just prior to Frances Hodgkins’ return to New Zealand. But Frances Hodgkins was also painting in the Netherlands from the latter part of 1907 until mid 1908. The painting style with its rhythm of broad slashing brushstrokes suggests this later period.
(Sourced from notes by Avenal McKinnon, Frances Hodgkins, the link with Kapiti: The Field Collection, Mahara Gallery, 2000).