Collier, Edith (1885–1964)

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Collier, Edith (1885–1964)

New Zealand painter. Born Edith Marion Collier, Mar 28, 1885, at Wanganui, New Zealand; died Dec 12, 1964, at Wanganui; dau. of Henry Collier (shopkeeper) Eliza Catherine (Parkes) Collier.

Studied art at Wanganui Technical School and in England and Ireland (early 1900s); painted highly regarded portraits of rural people and their dwellings before producing modern, experimental work; exhibited at Women's International Art Club show (1920), New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts (1927–28), and with The Group (1929, 1931); represented New Zealand at Empire Artists' Exhibition in London (1937); work is collected by Sarjeant Gallery, Wanganui, and Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington.

See also Dictionary of New Zealand Biography (Vol. 4).

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