JOHN GIBB
Throughout the 1880s he was recognised as one of the country’s leading landscape and marine painters, favouring views of the Estuary and ships wrecked at sea. Gibb interpreted the New Zealand landscape through the conventions of academic realism and Scottish romanticism, making it familiar to colonial society. When the Canterbury Society of Arts held its first exhibition in 1881 - Gibb’s, Shades of Evening - The Estuary
was purchased as the inaugural work for its collection.
Gibb has work in the Alexander Turnbull Library in Wellington and the Christchurch Art Gallery.
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