Frances Hodgkins goes to Market

The marketplace is a recurring subject in the work of artist Frances Hodgkins (1869–1947). Her handling of it over the years, and in different contexts, shows how she developed as a professional artist and with what trends she linked herself. The market can be seen in the work of British artists (e.g., Charles Worsley) of whom she will have been aware before she left her home country, as well as in the work of French ones (e.g., Camille Pissarro) whom she will have discovered once she went to Europe. A study of her use of this motif is essential to locating her as a New Zealand artist who became a European artist.