Peggy Spicer

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| birth_name = Mary Margaret Gore Spicer

| birth_date = 1908

| birth_place = Parnell, Auckland, New Zealand

| death_date = 1984

| death_place = Auckland, New Zealand

| nationality = New Zealander

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| field = Painting

| training = Elam School of Fine Art

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Mary Margaret Gore Spicer (1908–1984) was a New Zealand artist.{{Cite web|url=http://findnzartists.org.nz/artist/14081/|title=Spicer, Peggy|website=findnzartists.org.nz|language=en|access-date=12 October 2017}}

Education

Spicer was educated at Chilton Saint James School in Lower Hutt, New Zealand, and Diocesan School for Girls in Auckland.{{Cite web|url=http://www.arcadja.com/auctions/en/spicer_peggy/artist/172175/|title=Peggy Spicer|website=www.arcadja.com|language=en|access-date=12 October 2017}} She then trained at the Elam School of Fine Arts and was influenced by the teaching of John Weeks, though she was not taught by him directly.{{Cite web|url=https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/4w10/weeks-john|title=Weeks, John|last=Shand|first=Peter|date=1998|website=Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand|language=en|access-date=12 October 2017}}

Career

Spicer worked in watercolours, often painting landscapes and life in small towns of New Zealand. She was a contemporary of Rena Manson, Ida Eise, and Bessie Christie.{{Cite news|url=https://www.aucklandartgallery.com/explore-art-and-ideas/archives/24072|title=Rena Manson Archive|work=Auckland Art Gallery|access-date=12 October 2017|language=en}}

After her studies, Spicer traveled to England and Egypt with her mother, Ella Spicer, also an artist. During their travels they both exhibited in Cairo.{{Cite web|url=https://www.artrecord.com/index.cfm/artist/9709-spicer-peggy/|title=Peggy Spicer|website=www.artrecord.com|language=en|access-date=12 October 2017}}

Spicer exhibited with several New Zealand art associations including:

Auckland Society of Arts{{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=12 October 2017}}
Canterbury Society of Arts{{Cite web|url=http://findnzartists.org.nz/artists/exhibition/2/|title=Artists exhibited with Canterbury Society of Arts|website=findnzartists.org.nz|language=en|access-date=12 October 2017}}
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=12 October 2017}}{{Cite book|title=Portrait of a Century: The History of the N.Z. Academy of Fine Arts, 1882-1982|last1=Kay|first1=Robin|last2=Eden|first2=Tony|publisher=Millwood Press|year=1983|isbn=0908582609}}
Rutland Group{{Cite web|url=http://findnzartists.org.nz/artists/exhibition/5/|title=Artists exhibited with Rutland Group|website=findnzartists.org.nz|language=en|access-date=12 October 2017}}{{Cite book|title=We Learnt to See: Elam's Rutland Group 1935-1958: A Biographical Journey with Auckland Artists|last1=Thwaites|first1=Ian|last2=Fletcher|first2=Rie|publisher=Puriri Press|year=2004}}
Auckland Fellowship of Artists

In 1963 she was awarded the Kelliher Art Prize (second place).{{Cite web|url=https://teara.govt.nz/en/1966/art-awards/page-2|title=Kelliher Art Prize|last=A. H.|first=McLintock|date=1966|website=Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand|language=en|access-date=12 October 2017}}

Her work is held at the Waihi Arts Centre and Museum Association.{{Cite web|url=http://www.waihimuseum.co.nz/art-gallery/permanent-art-collection/|title=Permanent Art Collection » Waihi Arts Centre & Museum|last=Museum|first=Waihi Arts Centre &|website=www.waihimuseum.co.nz|language=en|access-date=12 October 2017}}

Peggy Spicer

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