Provenance:

Private Collection, Wellington

Exhibited: Autumn Exhibition, New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts, cat no. 144

Evelyn Page Seven Decades Touring Exhibition 1986, cat no. 33 Robert McDougall Art Gallery, Christchurch

An original label from that exhibition affixed verso

Reference:

p. 85 & 86 Evelyn Page Seven Decades, Janet Paul & Neil Roberts Allen & Unwin New Zealand Limited 1986, published on the occasion of the exhibition Evelyn Page Seven Decades, Robert McDougall Art Gallery, Christchurch

Notes:

This painting was done from The Terrace, Wellington, looking through a narrow gorge between buildings to the harbour. Text from p. 86 Evelyn Page Seven Decades, Janet Paul & Neil Roberts, Allen & Unwin New Zealand Limited 1986

Grey Street Wellington was painted the same year Evelyn Page's family moved to a bach at Waikanae. Later that year she and her husband Frederick bought an old house at 20 Hobson Street, Wellington