WALTERS, Gordon, 1919-1995
Untitled (Painting)
The emergence in the 1950s of Gordon Walters
as one of our most important pioneers of
abstract art, along with the likes of Don Peebles
and Milan Mrkusich, signalled an important
cultural transition in New Zealand.
As critic Francis Pound has argued, it was a
shift away from the literary influences of the
nationalist landscape painters towards the flat
planes of architecture and design, from the rustic
countryside to urban modernism.