More Info →Peter McIntyre, New Zealand Artist

This image was published in the Manawatu Evening Standard on 24 June 1964 with the caption, "New Zealand artist Peter McIntyre looks intently at a painting he has just completed during a demonstration and talk to the Palmerston North Coffee Club at the Lutheran Hall yesterday. "In this mechanised age, the world is rapidly turning into a nightmare," he said. "As a result, people are turning to the arts for comfort. Mechanical devices are being taken for granted and individuals want something more personal. The world's beauty of the countryside is fast being whittled away by industry and because of this, more and more turn to the arts." McIntyre, from Dunedin, studied at London's Slade School of Art. During the Depression he painted backdrops for theatres and worked as an artist on women's magazines but it was as a World War Two professional war artist in Crete, Greece, the Western Desert and Italy that he became famous."