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Edith Marion Collier (28 March 1885 – 12 December 1964) was an early modern painter from 
Collier returned to New Zealand in 1922 as an experienced artist with innovative ideas, but as a spinster in provincial Whanganui received harsh treatment, including what
Edith Collier: An Early New Zealand Modernist
''Woman's Art Journal'' 18 (1): 9–13. A street is named after her in the suburb of St Johns Hill, Whanganui. The Edith Collier Trust works to raise awareness of Edith's life work and legacy. The Trust was incorporated under the Charitable Trusts Act 1957 on 28/11/1994. The Trust and the Sarjeant Gallery Te Whare o Rehua, in Whanganui, have a collaborative partnership where the Sarjeant Gallery stores and cares for the majority of Collier's surviving works, books and ephemera which belong to the Trust
The cataloguing of the archived works can be viewed in the Sarjeant Gallery's online collection.
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Documentary on Edith Collier
{{DEFAULTSORT:Collier, Edith 1885 births 1964 deaths 20th-century New Zealand painters 20th-century New Zealand women artists Alumni of St John's Wood Art School People educated at Whanganui Girls' College Artists from Whanganui People associated with The Group (New Zealand art)
New Zealand
New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and over 700 smaller islands. It is the sixth-largest island count ...
. Brought up and educated in Wanganui
Whanganui (; ), also spelled Wanganui, is a city in the Manawatū-Whanganui region of New Zealand. The city is located on the west coast of the North Island at the mouth of the Whanganui River, New Zealand's longest navigable waterway. Whangan ...
, Edith received a thorough although conservative art education studying at the Technical School in Whanganui. At the age of 27 Edith then travelled to Britain in 1913 and studied at the St John's Wood School of Art in London and toured throughout the United Kingdom, executing works in St. Ives, Cornwall; Glasgow Scotland; Bonmahn, Southern Ireland among others.. Through her works, Edith explored the media of oil paint, watercolour, printmaking and pencil drawing. After spending almost a decade receiving professional artistic training, Edith returned to provincial Whanganui where her works were met with criticism as a result of her assimilation into the radical innovations of British modernism and New Zealand's dissimilar art scene at the time. For this reason, her work is largely unknown at home and overseas.
Collier returned to New Zealand in 1922 as an experienced artist with innovative ideas, but as a spinster in provincial Whanganui received harsh treatment, including what Joanne Drayton
Joanne Drayton is a New Zealand art historian, biographer and nonfiction writer.
Drayton graduated from the University of Canterbury, Christchurch in 1998 with a PhD on "Edith Collier: Her life and work (1885–1964)". She adapted her thesis f ...
describes as savage, critical assessment and negative response from her own community. In a well-known incident her father burned many of her best paintings, including her nude studies.Joanne Drayton (1997)Edith Collier: An Early New Zealand Modernist
''Woman's Art Journal'' 18 (1): 9–13. A street is named after her in the suburb of St Johns Hill, Whanganui. The Edith Collier Trust works to raise awareness of Edith's life work and legacy. The Trust was incorporated under the Charitable Trusts Act 1957 on 28/11/1994. The Trust and the Sarjeant Gallery Te Whare o Rehua, in Whanganui, have a collaborative partnership where the Sarjeant Gallery stores and cares for the majority of Collier's surviving works, books and ephemera which belong to the Trust
The cataloguing of the archived works can be viewed in the Sarjeant Gallery's online collection.
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Documentary on Edith Collier
{{DEFAULTSORT:Collier, Edith 1885 births 1964 deaths 20th-century New Zealand painters 20th-century New Zealand women artists Alumni of St John's Wood Art School People educated at Whanganui Girls' College Artists from Whanganui People associated with The Group (New Zealand art)