{"product_id":"muriel-harkness-oil-painting-the-blue-gum-tree","title":"Muriel Harkness Oil Painting \"The Blue Gum Tree\"","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn original oil painting of blue gum trees, signed \"M. Harkness\" lower right. Pale trunks branch across a soft green sky with distant blue hills falling away to the right, worked in muted greens, ochres and dusty blues. The reverse carries the artist's inscription \"The Blue Gum Tree by Muriel Harkness\" alongside its original asking price of ten guineas (£10.10.0). Presented in its original moulded giltwood frame.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMuriel Harkness (1888–1953) came from an early Waimea settler family and exhibited with the Canterbury Society of Arts, the New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts, and the Auckland Society of Arts through the late 1930s and 1940s. Her portrait drawing of Isabella Harkness is held in the Nelson Provincial Museum collection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCondition: Good vintage condition. The canvas has been repositioned within the frame by a framer using the original nails, with a spacer added to the lower edge. There is rubbing to the gilt in areas of the frame.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDimensions: 44.5 cm wide x 50 cm high\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Workers Cottage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43321998114914,"sku":null,"price":450.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0628\/4440\/3810\/files\/DSCF5185.jpg?v=1789085140","url":"https:\/\/theworkerscottage.nz\/products\/muriel-harkness-oil-painting-the-blue-gum-tree","provider":"The Workers Cottage","version":"1.0","type":"link"}