PETER MCINTYRE
Peter McIntyre was born in Dunedin in the South Island of New Zealand in 1910. He went to London at the age of 20 where he studied at the Slade School of Art in London (1931-1934). Following his graduation he was influenced by British avant-garde painting, and worked as an illustrator and theatre designer, but his appointment as war artist reunited him with his countrymen and commitment to realism. As an artist with the Second New Zealand Expeditionary Forces (2NZEF), Peter McIntyre recorded its campaigns in Crete, North Africa and Italy. His work defined New Zealand’s war experiences in North Africa and Cassino.
He returned to New Zealand in 1946 as a professional artist, and by the 1960s had established a career as the country’s most popular painter, travelling artist and commentator. The illustrated best-selling publication Peter McIntyre’s New Zealand (1964), represented many New Zealanders first experience of a local professional artist. He also made many painting excursions from New Zealand creating popular books on the Pacific, Hong Kong and the American West. In 1970 McIntyre was awarded an OBE. He died in 1995, and since then his work has become increasingly re-assessed within the context of a burgeoning sense of New Zealand identity in the post war period.
Examples of McIntyre’s works are held in the collection of the Auckland Art Gallery, the Museum of New Zealand and many private collections around the world.
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