ID: 700001831 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700001831	Record Type: Movable Work
Images: 1

Otago landscape (watercolor (painting); George O'Brien (New Zealand watercolorist and lithographer, ...; 1870; Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (Wellington, Welling...; 1976-0038-2)

Note: "Otago landscape" is typical of O'Brien's landscapes, and demonstrates the liberties he took to achieve an ideal view within the conventions of a classical landscape in the manner of Claude Lorrain, the seventeenth-century French landscape painter. The scene has been effortlessly manipulated to fit O'Brien's favoured oval format. The foreground is highly detailed, with flax bushes framing the lefthand side; the fence on the right leads the eye over the hill, plunging into a cool blue valley and on to a small settlement already cast into dusk. The hills are sharply defined, and the sky, garishly aglow with the orange and pink hues of a sunset, consumes almost half the painting. (Rebecca Rice, 2009)

Titles:

Otago landscape (preferred,C,U,RP,English-P,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

watercolor (painting) [300078925] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>, paintings (visual works), <paintings by material or technique>)

Classifications:

paintings (preferred)

Creation Date: 1870

Creator Display:

George O'Brien (New Zealand watercolorist and lithographer, 1821-1888) [preferred,VP]

painter O'Brien, George (New Zealand watercolorist and lithographer, 1821-1888) [500059186]

Locations:

Current: Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand) [500311561] Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: 1976-0038-2

Credit Line: Purchased 1976

Creation: Dunedin [7001792] (Geographic)

Display Materials: watercolor

	watercolors (paintings) [300078925]
	.......(Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>, paintings (visual works), <paintings by material or technique>)

	paper (fiber product) [300014109]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by form>, <materials by physical form>, <fiber and fiber by product>, <fiber by product>)

Dimensions: Image: 244 (Height) x 346 (Width) mm; Support: 244 (Height) x 346 (Width) mm

General Subject:

landscapes (preferred)

Specific Subjects:

	Otago [7018437]
	.....() (TGN)

	hills (landforms) [300008777]
	.....(Objects Facet, Built Environment (hierarchy name), Settlements and Landscapes (hierarchy name), landscapes (environments), natural landscapes, landforms (terrestrial)) (AAT)

	fence (site element) [300005044]
	.....(Objects Facet, Built Environment (hierarchy name), Open Spaces and Site Elements (hierarchy name ), site elements) (AAT)

	sunset [300343635]
	.....(Associated Concepts Facet, Associated Concepts (hierarchy name), scientific concepts, physical sciences concepts, earth sciences concepts, times of day) (AAT)

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media

Sources and Contributors:
Otago landscape	........ [VP,TePapa]
	........ Te Papa online (2000-) http://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/ObjectDetails.aspx?oid=39014; accessed 22 August 2012
	........ Te Papa spreadsheet (2012)

Subject: ....... [VP,TePapa]

....................... Te Papa spreadsheet (2012)

Note:
English	..... [VP]
	..... Te Papa online (2000-) http://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/ObjectDetails.aspx?oid=39014; accessed 22 August 2012