Toss Woollaston - A Life in Letters

Te Papa Press, Wellington, 2004.

Toss Woollaston was for many years the pre-eminent twentieth-century New Zealand modernist, whose great landscape paintings changed the way New Zealanders saw their country and themselves. He was also a passionate diarist and correspondent who wrote engagingly about everything: life, love, God, the landscape, poetry, and his friends. But above all, he wrote about art - his own and that of others. His letters are an archive of national importance, spanning his entire lifetime. Many hundreds of them are included in this volume including letters to contemporaries Ursula Bethell, Charles Brasch, Tony Fomison, and Colin McCahon, among others. Beautifully illustrated with reproductions of paintings, sketches, archival photographs, and samples of the letters themselves, this book features a substantial introduction and bridging text from editor and curator Jill Trevelyan. Altogether, it is a compelling biographical portrait and an important record of a key period in New Zealand?s cultural and social history.

Good second hand condition but NO dust jacket.