James R. Jackson b. 1882 Palmerston North, New Zealand

  • Artist (Painter)
Painter, born in New Zealand in 1882. He had lessons at the Royal Art Society School in Sydney. He re-visited New Zealand on numerous occasions and studied art in both London and Paris. He received publicity in the New Zealand press in 1950 for his Sydney Harbour and marine paintings.
Talk | Version history | Updated Oct. 19, 2011 | Created Jan. 1, 1999
Name
James R. Jackson
Birth date
1882
Birth place
Palmerston North, New Zealand
Gender
Male
Roles
  • Artist (Painter)
Residence
  • c.1915- New Zealand
  • Seaforth, NSW
  • Mosman, NSW
  • 1950 New Zealand
  • Paris, France
  • London, England, UK
  • North Sydney, NSW
  • c.1906- New Zealand
Active Period
  • c.1906- c.1950
Cultural Heritage
  • New Zealand
Languages
  • English
Training
  • Royal Art Society School, Sydney, NSW
Is Indigenous
No
Initial Record Data Source
  • Legacy data. Source 'unknown'

Painter, born Palmerston North, New Zealand in 1882 – the same year as Elioth Gruner , a fellow New Zealander. He inherited an interest in art and was a keen artist when he moved to Australia with his father and siblings as a young teenager. He had lessons at the Royal Art Society School in Sydney for a time. In 1906 Jackson visited his father and brothers who had returned to NZ, before sailing to England were he studied art in both London and Paris. He made another trip to NZ in 1915 after a brother was killed at Gallipoli. That year the then National Art Gallery of New South Wales first purchased a painting. He had studios in North Sydney, Mosman and Seaforth. His last NZ trip was in 1950, where he received publicity in the press now that his paintings of Sydney Harbour and marine scenes were popular.

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Writers:
Staff Writer
Date written:
1999
Last updated:
2011
associate of
Elioth Gruner
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
associate of
Elaine E. Coghlan
1897
Artist (Painter)
associate of
Dorothy Cottrell
1902
Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator), Artist (Draughtsman)
associate of
Victor Cusack
1937
Artist (Glass & metal Artist / Designer), Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator), Artist (Draughtsman), Artist (Sculptor), Artist (Painter)
associate of
Sir Erik Langker
1898
Artist (Painter)
associate of
Norman Lloyd
1895
Artist (Painter)
associate of
Isabel Mackenzie
1890
Artist (Painter), Artist (Draughtsman)
associate of
G. Gayfield Shaw
1885
Artist (Printmaker)
Collections
Citations:
  • Gardiner, Sue (curator), (2001), Leaping Boundaries: A century of New Zealand Artists in Australia, (Place: Mosman Art Gallery catalogue, Mosman, NSW)