Maude Burge was a New Zealand painter influenced by James Nairn.
16 Facts About Maude Burge
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Maude Burge spent time as an expatriate artist specifically in Europe.
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Maude Burge's paintings are held in the permanent collection of Auckland Art Gallery, the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, the National Art Gallery of New Zealand, the Fletcher Trust Collection, the National Library of New Zealand and among private art collectors in the northern and southern hemispheres.
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Maude Burge exhibited her paintings at the New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts.
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Maude Burge painted portraits of the Maori in a modernist style.
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Maude Burge painted one of Goldie's favourite early models Ina Te Papatahi, of the Ngapuhi iwi tribe.
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Maude Burge travelled extensively and painted watercolours of still lifes, market scenes and beach scenes in St Tropez, Morocco and Dalmatia.
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Maude Burge became a friend and painting companion of fellow New Zealand artist Frances Hodgkins.
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One of Maude Burge's prominent paintings is an oil on canvas titled 'Portrait of Lady Fergusson'.
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Goldie described Maude Burge as being a better portrait painter of the Maori than himself.
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Maude Burge's work has been sold through The International Art Centre in Parnell, Auckland and at Dunbar Sloane Art Auction house in Wellington.
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Maude Burge spent many years abroad until the mid-1930s when she returned to live in New Zealand.
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Maude Burge was the third eldest of thirteen children born to Annie Palmer Beetham and Paihia-born landowner Thomas Coldham Williams.
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Maude Burge married George Aylesford Maude Burge in New Zealand in 1909.
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Mr and Mrs Maude Burge settled at Taupo and then later at Cole Street in Masterton.
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Maude Burge died there in 1957 at the age of ninety-two and is buried at Masterton Cemetery on Archer Street.