Kapiti Island, North Island, NZ

Artist
Leitch, Peter Date
1979 See full details

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Description
Peter G. Leitch was born and educated in Wellington, and worked from his studio in Christchurch. He was working in the advertising industry when in the 1970s he started to paint as a hobby, although he had no formal training. He became a major prize winner in the National Bank Watercolour Awards. He commenced painting full-time in 1972 and exhibited with the New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts in 1967, 68, 69, 70 and 71 as well as holding several one-man shows. He designed a series of stamps for New Zealand Post featuring early New Zealand architecture and the New Zealand Air Force. His paintings have also been reproduced on table mats, calendars and and prints.
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Reproduction
(of artist's aquatints on rag paper)
Measurements
Image: hxw; 195 x 372mm
Frame: hxwxd; 405 x 565 x 25mm
Breadth 20mm
Registration number
ART00321

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