New Zealand Oil Painting Rabbit Island Duncan Darroch

Up for sale from a recent client in Honolulu Hawaii, this circa 1920s New Zealand framed oil on canvas board painting that is untitled but depicts Manana and Kaohikaʻipu island also known as Rabbit island and black rock island that are bird sanctuaries off the east side of Oahu that was created by the artist Duncan Darroch (1888-1967). The condition is described below - for more details please check the photos.
Measurements:
Painting 9 inches x 15.25 inches
Frame 10 inches x 16 inches
More about the artist:
Duncan Darroch (1888-1967) was born in Otago to Margaret and John Darroch, raised in Milton, and was a sailor in the 1920s working on Union Steam Ship Company coasters visiting every port in New Zealand and traveling to Canada and Britain, painting during his journeys. He studied at the Canterbury School of Art in 1922 under Archibold Nicoll although he was largely self taught. In 1928 he was a farrier (blacksmith) and then a ranger at Mount Cook. He lived at Mt Cook from 1926 until his death. He painted mountains and seascapes in an impressionist style and is represented in the Aigantighe (Timaru), Dunedin, Forrester (Oamaru), Hawkes Bay, Hocken (Dunedin), McDougall (Christchurch), University of Canterbury Christchurch), Sutter (Nelson), Te Papa (Wellington) galleries, at the Sir Edmund Hillary Alpine Centre, Hermitage and the South Canterbury Museum has one of his paintings and so does my cousin. He painted in oils. He bequeathed his chalet, Tighnabruaich, at Mt Cook, to the New Zealand Forest and Bird Protection Society.
Duncan was an excellent smithy and looked after 25 to 35 horses at the Hermitage. He graduated from anvil to one of the foremost landscape painters. He loved the alpine scenery and had no formal training when he started painting and little money so he used old corrugated iron as his canvas and his fingers for brushes. He did have to buy the tubes of oil paint. His first efforts were crude and would paint out his first efforts and try again and gradually developed his own style. He was assisted by Cecil Kelly, director of the School of Fine Arts in ChCh and others to improve his technique and to make greater use of brushes but he still used his fingers when painting." wrote Harry Wigley in 1979 in The Mount Cook Way.

Condition: The painting and frame are overall in acceptable pre-owned condition, the board is dirty with minor pigment losses in places, the frame with scuff and scratch marks"

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Reserve: $499.00

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