item details
NameJuliet Peter 1949
ProductionDouglas MacDiarmid; 1949
Classificationdrawings, works on paper
Materialsink, paper
Materials Summarypen and ink on paper with serrated upper edge.
DimensionsImage: 348 (height), 268 (length)
Registration Number1980-0059-4
Credit lineGift of the artist, Paris, 1980
Overview
Douglas MacDiarmid lived in Wellington from 1949-50. He held weekly sketching sessions in his Wadestown flat with fellow artists and friends John Drawbridge, Juliet Peter, Helen Stewart and Helen Hitchings. This sketch is of Juliet Peter - a gifted painter, printmaker and potter.
A number of John Drawbridge’s sketches from this period are also held in Te Papa’s collection, including this drawing of Juliet Peter: https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/1365393