Peter McIntyre
Peter McIntyre was born and educated in Dunedin before travelling to London in the early 1930s to study at the Slade School of Fine Arts. After graduating, McIntyre worked as a free-lance commercial artist until 1939, when he enlisted in the Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force in England. He initially served as an anti-tank gunner until his talent as an artist was recognised by Major General Bernard Freyberg, who appointed him Official New Zealand War Artist in 1941.
McIntyre returned to New Zealand after the war and worked as a successful professional painter of portraits and landscape. A traditionalist by nature, McIntyre was critical of modernism and abstraction that proliferated Post War art, preferring a far more conservative approach than many of his well-known contemporaries. McIntyre was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for services to the arts in the 1970 New Year Honours.

Frosty Morning, Galloway

The Octagon, Dunedin - c1950
Other pieces by Peter McIntyre
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Winter Lindis Pass
Oil on board




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