(b. 1919-1998)
Slipway (2) 1965
PVA
630mm x 820mm (framed)
Church on the Hill
Acrylic
470mm x 615mm (framed)
Born in Hastings, Arthur Dagley lived in Tauranga almost his whole life. He began exhibiting regularly at the Tauranga Art Gallery in Elizabeth Street from 1966 and was a finalist in the 1968 Benson and Hedges Art Award and became a full time artist in the same year. He continued painting and exhibiting right up until his passing on 1st August 1998.
Warwick Brown wrote: “More than once when his work has been critically reviewed, Dagley has been called the most underrated painter in New Zealand. Some of the reasons for this may be his lifetime residence in Tauranga, a city with no art gallery, his infrequent exhibitions in the main centres; the fact that he is largely self-taught, and his prolific output of minor as well as serious works.”
Artworks purchased from a private collector