Evening Sun, Rangitikei River
Oil on canvas
39 x 49.5 cm
Signed lower right
The Rangitikei River p.32 Peter McIntyres New Zealand
“Years ago I went far up the Rangitikei beyond Taihape to visit my friend David Russell, whose farm at that time was as far as you could drive up the river into the bush. The river is so deep between high papa cliffs that down at the bottom where the river flows there is only a sort of twilight, even on a sunny day. Once I crossed the gorge at a wider place in the bush in a tray slung on a logger’s wire rope, and we sat in mid-air watching a large trout feed in the river below where a patch of sun broke through the overhanging bush.
From that time on I have painted the river up and down its length, and always there has been delight in painting those lovely cliffs that are that most paintable of all colours – white.”
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“The Taihape route twists and bends but offers reward in the stretches of my beloved Rangitikei River. For years I carried on a love affair in paint with this river, wandering in its valley, prowling the fields above it, waiting for the sun to light the splendour of its white papa cliffs.”
“The Taihape route twists and bends but offers reward in the stretches of my beloved Rangitikei River. For years I carried on a love affair in paint with this river, wandering in its valley, prowling the fields above it, waiting for the sun to light the splendour of its white papa cliffs.”
– Peter McIntyres New Zealand, 1964
