A Lois White
Anna Lois White was born in Auckland inĀ 1903. Lois White, as she preferred to be known was from the Modernist school with an interest in symbolism and figurative works. White studied at the Elam Art School of the University of Auckland and later taught there from 1928 - 1963.
War Makers painted by White in 1937 is perhaps her most well known and controversial piece. War Makers and other artworks from this period were a example of Whites anti-war commentary. In the late 1930s White also started to produce religious and female allegories, portraiture and mural commissions. Female allegories, modelled on friends and students were a consistent attempt to articulate and celebrate female centred sexuality. A Group of Figures in the BNZ Art Collection is an early example of this exploration.
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A Group of Figures - c1936
Gouache on Pastelboard 790 x 680mm




Other artists in the collection
- Billy Apple
- Annie Baird
- Stephen Bambury
- Charles Barraud
- Brian Baxter
- Peter Black
- Albert E Bollard
- Nigel Brown
- Fassett Burnett
- Tom Burnett
- Debra Bustin
- George Chance
- Raymond Ching
- Colin Coke
- Derek Cowie
- Perry Davies
- Margaret Dawson
- Austen A Deans
- Claudia Pond Eyley
- Joan Fanning
- Jacqueline Fraser
- Rudolf Gopas
- Brendan Hartwell
- Louise Henderson
- Roland Hipkins
- Ralph Hotere
- Stephen Howard
- Raymond Jennings
- William Moore
- Peter Moriarty
- Pauline Morse
- Milan Mrkusich
- Don R Neilson
- Phillip O'Sullivan
- Evelyn Page
- Fiona Pardington
- Don Peebles
- Peter Peryer
- Claudia Eyley Pond
- Owen R Lee
- Peter Ransom
- Lynette Rawlingson
- John Reynolds
- Marie Shannon
- Mary Shephard
- Elizabeth Stevens
- Eion Stevens
- Helen Stewart
- Terry Stringer
- Llewelyn Summers
- Cynthia Taylor
- Pauline Thompson
- Gary Tricker
- John B Turner
- Gordon Walters
- Malcolm Warr
- Marilynn Webb
- Ans Westra
- A Lois White
- Robin White
- William Laurence Wilson
- Brent Wong
- Adele Younghusband