{"id":1128,"date":"2017-04-27T21:34:37","date_gmt":"2017-04-27T21:34:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/thehockenblog\/?p=1128"},"modified":"2017-04-27T21:34:37","modified_gmt":"2017-04-27T21:34:37","slug":"happy-birthday-frances-hodgkins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/thehockenblog\/happy-birthday-frances-hodgkins\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday Frances Hodgkins!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Post compiled by Andrea Bell, Curator of Art<\/p>\n<p>Today marks what would have been artist Frances Hodgkins\u2019 148<sup>th<\/sup> birthday. Frances Mary Hodgkins was born in Dunedin in 1869, the daughter of Rachel Owen Parker and William Mathew Hodgkins. Born into an artistic family, she joined the Otago Art Society at age 21 and dedicated her life to painting. In 1875 she studied at the Dunedin School of Art under the tuition of Italian artist Girolamo Pieri Nerli and in 1901 she travelled abroad to expand her artistic horizons. In 1912, she emigrated permanently, and went on to spent the majority of her life in Britain and Europe. Primarily a painter, she worked across a range of media including watercolour, pencil, charcoal, gouache and oils. She lived a nomadic life and travelled widely around Europe. As a result, her work underwent numerous transitions: from Impressionist to Surrealist, to Neo-Romantic with abstract tendencies\u2014but never losing sight of her subject. At age 71 she was invited to represent Britain in the 1940 Venice Biennale, along with her younger contemporaries. Hodgkins was one of New Zealand and indeed Britain\u2019s leading modernist painters. She died in Dorset, England in 1947, aged 78.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1131\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1131\" style=\"width: 584px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1131 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/thehockenblog\/files\/2017\/04\/2017-04-27_16-19-10-1024x818.jpg\" width=\"584\" height=\"467\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/thehockenblog\/files\/2017\/04\/2017-04-27_16-19-10-1024x818.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/thehockenblog\/files\/2017\/04\/2017-04-27_16-19-10-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/thehockenblog\/files\/2017\/04\/2017-04-27_16-19-10-768x613.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/thehockenblog\/files\/2017\/04\/2017-04-27_16-19-10-376x300.jpg 376w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1131\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Frances Mary Hodgkins 1869-1947, Double portrait (1922), oil on canvas, 610 x 770mm, 73\/169, Hocken Collections, Uare Taoka o H\u0101kena, University of Otago<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>One of the Hocken Collections\u2019 most prized artworks is <a href=\"http:\/\/hakena.otago.ac.nz\/scripts\/mwimain.dll\/144\/COLLECTIONS\/WEB_COLL_DET_REP\/SISN%2010131?sessionsearch\"><em>Double Portrait<\/em> (1922)<\/a>, depicting Hodgkins\u2019 former art students Hannah Ritchie (left) and Jane Saunders (right), with whom she maintained a long association throughout her life. Hodgkins\u2019 use of bright colour and flattened painting technique shows the influence of Henri Matisse, while the elongated figures call to mind Amadeo Modigliani \u2013 both artists whose work Hodgkins would have seen around this time. The patterns on the women\u2019s dresses also foreshadows Hodgkins\u2019 foray into textile design at the Calico Printers\u2019 Association (CPA) in Manchester, where she worked between 1925-26. <em>Double Portrait<\/em> was sold by Ritchie in 1957 via Leicester Gallery to Charles Brasch, who bequeathed the work to the Hocken Collections in 1973.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.otago.ac.nz\/otagofellows\/hodgkins.html\">Frances Hodgkins Fellowship<\/a>\u00a0was established at the University of Otago in 1962 in her honour.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Post compiled by Andrea Bell, Curator of Art Today marks what would have been artist Frances Hodgkins\u2019 148th birthday. Frances Mary Hodgkins was born in Dunedin in 1869, the daughter of Rachel Owen Parker and William Mathew Hodgkins. Born into an artistic family, she joined the Otago Art Society at age 21 and dedicated her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14625,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15379],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-painting-and-painters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/thehockenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/thehockenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/thehockenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/thehockenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14625"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/thehockenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/thehockenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/thehockenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/thehockenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/thehockenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}