This is a study for a work titled 'Composition of Flat Areas', a tempera on board held in the collection of Te Papa Tongarewa and purchased in 1970 from Wellington City Council Picture Purchase Fund with assistance from the Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council of New Zealand.

John Weeks 1886 - 1965

Weeks was an influential artist, both as a painter and as a teacher in the New Zealand art scene in the 1930s until the 1960s.

He was born in Devonshire, England and came to New Zealand at an early age.

Weeks studied at Elam School of Fine Arts from 1908 to 1911. He was an extensive traveller, spending time in England, Australia, Europe and North Africa, studying at the Edinburgh College of Arts and Andre L'Hote's Academy in Paris before returning to teach at Elam in 1929.