Kennett Watkins
Artwork Detail
Kennett Watkins was a pioneer of a specific school of New Zealand landscape art, focussing on the representation of subjects from the country’s history. This painting is an imagined view that evokes a pre-colonial past. The extinct flightless moa is depicted roaming the dark and dank puriri forest, stalked by Māori hunters. (Te Moananui a Kiwa, 2005)
- Title
- The Haunt of the Moa, a scene in Puriri Forest
- Artist/creator
- Kennett Watkins
- Production date
- 1885
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 1146 x 1960 x 85 mm
- Credit line
- Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
- Accession no
- U/332
- Copyright
- No known copyright restrictions
- Department
- New Zealand Art
- Display status
- Not on display
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