Elise Constance Mourant
Elise Constance Mourant (29 October 1921 – 29 April 1990) was a New Zealand artist.
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Elise Constance Mourant
- Name
- Elise Mourant
- Birth Name
- Elise Constance Mourant
- Born
- 29 October 1921
- Birthplace
- Wellington, New Zealand
- Died
- 29 April 1990
- Place of death
- Royal Oak, Auckland, New Zealand
- Field
- Painting - landscapes
- Training
- Wellington Technical College, National College of Art and Design (Dublin), Slade School of Fine Art (London), Elam School of Fine Art (London)
- Nationality
- New Zealand
- Occupation
- painter · printmaker
- Fields
- painting
- Education
- Elam School of Fine Arts
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Elise Constance Mourant (29 October 1921 – 29 April 1990) was a New Zealand artist.
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Elise Constance Mourant (1921–1990) was a New Zealand painter and printmaker. Born in Wellington, the painter died in Royal Oak.
Elise Constance Mourant studied at Elam School of Fine Arts. The painter was a member of Rutland Group. Elise Constance Mourant was active in painting. Works by the painter are held at Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Rotorua Museum and Te Whare O Rehua Sarjeant Gallery, among others.
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Elise Constance Mourant studied at Elam School of Fine Arts. The field of work recorded is painting. Work by Elise Constance Mourant is recorded in the collections of Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Te Whare O Rehua Sarjeant Gallery, Rotorua Museum and Tūranga.
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• Name — Elise Mourant • Birth Name — Elise Constance Mourant • Born — 29 October 1921 • Birthplace — Wellington, New Zealand • Died — 29 April 1990 • Place of death — Royal Oak, Auckland, New Zealand • Field — Painting - landscapes • Training — Wellington Technical College, National College of Art and Design (Dublin), Slade School of Fine Art (London), Elam School of Fine Art (London)
Education
Education
Mourant studied at Wellington Technical College prior to World War II, alongside Thomas Arthur McCormack and Nugent Welch. She studied painting at the National College of Art and Design in Dublin, the Slade School of Fine Art in London, and the Elam School of Fine Art in Auckland from 1943.
Career
Career
Mourant was known for her landscapes, still life paintings, and urban scenes. She exhibited with the Auckland Society of Arts (with solo exhibitions in 1947 and 1949) and the New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts. She also exhibited with Christchurch-based art association, The Group, in 1950. She was a member of the Rutland Group of artists, along with John Weeks, John and Charles Tole, and Ida Eise. Works by Mourant include: Summer landscape, Auckland; Irises; Lily Lane, Melbourne, and Poppies and cistus.
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- 1.Elise Mourant - Collections Online - Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. collections.tepapa.govt.nz.
- 2.Mourant, Elise Constance. findnzartists.org.nz.
- 3.Spring Catalogue 2012. pierre peeters gallery.
- 4.Artists exhibited with Auckland Society of Arts. findnzartists.org.nz.
- 5.Artists exhibited with New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts. findnzartists.org.nz.
- 6.Robin Kay and Tony Eden. Portrait of a Century: The History of the N.Z. Academy of Fine Arts, 1882-1982. Millwood Press. 1983. 0908582609.
- 7.The Group 1950. christchurchartgallery.org.nz.
- 8.The Home Front, Volume II. nzetc.victoria.ac.nz.
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