Molly Macalister
Artwork Detail
Few Pākehā artists were carving with wood in the 1940s. Polynesian Mask is one of the first objects created by Molly Macalister using an indigenous wood, in this case the warmly toned kauri. First owned by Helen Hitchings, New Zealand’s pioneering contemporary art dealer, the sculpture combines a
modernist simplification of form with traditional South Pacific subject matter.
- Title
- Polynesian Mask
- Artist/creator
- Molly Macalister
- Production date
- 1947
- Medium
- kauri
- Dimensions
- 345 x 93 x 200 mm
- Credit line
- Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, The Ilene and Laurence Dakin Bequest, purchased 2011
- Accession no
- 2011/7
- Other ID
- 85/30 Old Accession Number
- Copyright
- Copying restrictions apply
- Department
- New Zealand Art
- Display status
- Not on display
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