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Doris Lusk
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(1916 – 1990), New Zealand

Doris Lusk Biography

Doris Lusk’s Regionalist paintings of the 1940s are frequently linked to the work of Colin McCahon’s and Leo Bensemann’s from this period. Lusk studied at the Dunedin School of Art (1934-1939), tutored by R.N. Field, an English artist who introduced his students to theories of modernism by art critics Roger Fry and Clive Bell. 

Her early landscape paintings included bridges and industrial buildings, examining the discordant relationship between nature and humanity. In 1942 she moved to Christchurch, establishing a long standing relationship with its arts community, exhibiting with The Group and Canterbury Society of Arts. Her work was collected by influential arts commentator Charles Brasch and her painting The Pumping Station

(1958) remains an important mature work.  Lusk’s work retained an interest in the environment, evident in later paintings of Kurow (mid-1970s) and the Demolition series (1982).  

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For many years she was president of the Canterbury Society of Arts in Christchurch. Her work is held in the Auckland Art Gallery and Christchurch Art Gallery, New Zealand. 

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