Artist: Reginald James (Reg) Waghorn (1898-1987)
Title: Mountain Flax
Date: 1971
School: New Zealand
Medium: colour linocut
Dimensions: 480 x 350mm (image), 560 x 465mm (support)
Watermark: none
Inscriptions/marks: On the image in pencil lower border left to right <<Mountain Flax 4/50…..R J Waghorn ‘71>>
Condition: good condition, minor spots of foxing and typical matt burn
Description: stylised flax plant printed in bluey-green with brown landscape, aqua-coloured mountains and beige sky
Reference: Reginald James Waghorn OBE was born in Lyttelton. He was a painter and printmaker. He was Principal of Wellington Teachers’ College from 1948-1957 and President of the Academy of Fine Arts in Wellington.
Provenance: Dunbar Sloane, 2023
