Elise Mourant

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| birth_name = Elise Constance Mourant

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1921|10|29|df=y}}

| birth_place = Wellington, New Zealand

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1990|04|29|1921|10|29|df=y}}

| death_place = Royal Oak, Auckland, New Zealand

| nationality = New Zealand

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| field = Painting - landscapes

| training = Wellington Technical College, National College of Art and Design (Dublin), Slade School of Fine Art (London), Elam School of Fine Art (London)

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Elise Constance Mourant (29 October 1921 – 29 April 1990) was a New Zealand artist.{{Cite web|url=https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/agent/1613|title=Elise Mourant - Collections Online - Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa|website=collections.tepapa.govt.nz|language=en|access-date=8 October 2017}}{{Cite web|url=http://findnzartists.org.nz/artist/10794/|title=Mourant, Elise Constance|website=findnzartists.org.nz|language=en|access-date=8 October 2017}} Works by Mourant are held in the collection of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa.

Education

Mourant studied at Wellington Technical College prior to World War II, alongside Thomas Arthur McCormack and Nugent Welch. She studied painting at the National College of Art and Design in Dublin, the Slade School of Fine Art in London, and the Elam School of Fine Art in Auckland from 1943.{{Cite web|url=https://c758759.ssl.cf2.rackcdn.com/listing_pdfs/1438/Spring_Catalogue_1_.pdf|title=Spring Catalogue 2012|website=pierre peeters gallery}}

Career

Mourant was known for her landscapes, still life paintings, and urban scenes. She exhibited with the Auckland Society of Arts (with solo exhibitions in 1947 and 1949){{Cite web|url=http://findnzartists.org.nz/artists/exhibition/1/|title=Artists exhibited with Auckland Society of Arts|website=findnzartists.org.nz|language=en|access-date=8 October 2017}} and the New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts.{{Cite web|url=http://findnzartists.org.nz/artists/exhibition/4/|title=Artists exhibited with New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts|website=findnzartists.org.nz|language=en|access-date=8 October 2017}}{{Cite book|title=Portrait of a Century: The History of the N.Z. Academy of Fine Arts, 1882-1982|last=Robin Kay and Tony Eden|publisher=Millwood Press|year=1983|isbn=0908582609}} She also exhibited with Christchurch-based art association, The Group, in 1950.{{Cite web|url=https://christchurchartgallery.org.nz/about/library/the-group/group-1950|title=The Group 1950|website=christchurchartgallery.org.nz|access-date=8 October 2017}} She was a member of the Rutland Group of artists, along with John Weeks, John and Charles Tole, and Ida Eise.{{Cite web|url=http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-WH2-2Hom-c23.html#name-017532-mention|title=The Home Front, Volume II|website=nzetc.victoria.ac.nz|access-date=8 October 2017}}

Works by Mourant include: Summer landscape, Auckland; Irises; Lily Lane, Melbourne, and Poppies and cistus.

Elise Mourant

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