Elizabeth Dyke Dunn (néeAcland; 23 September 1870 – 13 September 1959) was a New Zealand artist. For the last 38 years of her life, she lived in
San Diego, California.
Biography
Dunn was born Elizabeth Dyke Acland on 23 September 1870 at Holnicote House, the homestead of Mount Peel Station inland from
Peel Forest in
South Canterbury, New Zealand.[1] She was the tenth child of the Honourable
John Barton Arundel Acland and
Emily Harper, who was also a painter.[2][3] In 1896, she married
Charles Arthur Dunn, a painter, son of Reverend James Dunn and Angelina Anne Dyke Troyte, at the
Church of the Holy Innocents that belongs to Mount Peel Station.[2][4][3][5] They had two children.[3] They spent time at Mount Peel Station in South Canterbury, before moving to live in California in 1921.[2][6][7]
She was exhibited as Bessie Acland at the
Canterbury Society of Arts from 1893 to 1896.[8] Following her marriage, she exhibited as Bessie Dunn, at Canterbury Society of Arts in 1909, 1910, 1911, 1912, 1914, and the
New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts from 1901 to 1904.[9][10] Several watercolour landscapes are in the
Hocken Collection, the University of Otago.[11]
She died in
San Diego, California, on 13 September 1959, where she lived from 1921 until her death.[2][12]
References
^"Births". The Press. Vol. XVII, no. 2318. 28 September 1870. p. 2. Retrieved 28 January 2023.
^"California Death Index, 1940–1997," database, FamilySearch (
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VPWK-PDJ : 26 November 2014), Elizabeth Dyke Dunn, 13 September 1959; Department of Public Health Services, Sacramento.
Further reading
McGahey, Kate (2000). The Concise Dictionary of New Zealand Artists: Painters, Printmakers, Sculptors. Gilt Edge Publishing.