New Zealand Art by Doris Lusk

Doris Lusk paintings

40c The Lake Tuai.
1.00$ The Pumping Station.
1.50$ Arcade Awning, St. Marks Square.
1.80$ Tuam St. II.

Prominent artist

Doris Lusk was one of New Zealand's pre-eminent artists. The paintings chosen for the stamp issue reflect the wide variety of styles and materials with which Lusk worked. The Pumping Station was her best known piece.

Doris Lusk

Doris Lusk was born in Dunedin in 1916 and trained at the Dunedin King Edward Technical College from 1934 to 1939. During the 1940s she spent time painting with Colin McCahon before moving to Christchurch and marrying. Lusk raised three children, while continuing to paint and teach pottery and later in the 1960's Lusk taught at the University of Canterbury School of Fine Arts before winning the National Bank Award for a watercolour portrait of mother and child. Shortly after her death in 1990, Doris Lusk was posthumously honored with the Governor General Art Award for her contribution to New Zealand art.