Thomas Arthur McCormack
(Person)
Artist.
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.jpg "Sea and Rocks, on the opposite page, comes out better, and there we have a sort of rapid monochrome distillation of all McCormack's studies in the open of objects which he has so often invested with his own particular poetry of light and colour. But here he has got down rather to essential movement and I imagine that in this sketch, after preliminary thought, his brush moved somewhat with the speed of his breaking wave")
.jpg "The Head, above, reproduces least well: there is a delicacy about the line and the faint blue wash of the original, a quality of ‘floatingness’ which is inevitably lost through mechanical process on coated paper; but the experiment is so unusual with McCormack that the further experiment of reproduction is justified")
.jpg "With The Flowerpiece we have stillness, though stillness with, in the original, almost sparkle. It is in the tradition of those still lifes, never reduced to a formula, in which McCormack has produced an astonishing and subtle network of colour; and if you look at this for a while you get almost the illusion of colour, so skilful is the balance, the interaction, of black and white. The drawing might be a preliminary study for something larger, but I do not think it is. It stands on its own, self-sufficiently and very firmly. Full as it is of brushwork, I do not think anything has been wasted; the blobs, squiggles and crosses sink into a quite coherent and satisfying pattern. No one could wish to exclude this little picture from the canon of McCormack's work.—J.C.B")
Mentioned in
- A Life of J. C. Beaglehole: New Zealand Scholar
- Design Review: Volume 3, Issue 2 (September-October 1950)
- Design Review: Volume 3, Number 5 (March-April 1951)
- Nineteenth Century New Zealand Artists: A Guide & Handbook
Cited in
- A Life of J. C. Beaglehole: New Zealand Scholar
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- Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, which has entries for many prominent New Zealanders.
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- Auckland War Memorial Museum, which has extensive holdings on the Auckland region and New Zealand military history.
- Te Papa Tongarewa, which has strong holdings in Tāonga Māori, biological holotypes and New Zealand art.
- nzhistory.net.nz, from the History Group of the Ministry for Culture and Heritage.
