This is the best-known and finest watercolor made by Dorothy Richmond. Mount Egmont features one of the most frequently painted subjects in New Zealand landscape art. It is constructed through the simplest of means: the artist leaves much of the foreground untouched, creating a sense of space and using the white of the paper as one of the elements of her design. At left, a bleached tree form points beyond the bush to the snow-covered mountain outlined against a clear blue sky. In this serene view, completed in the last years of her life, Richmond seems to express both an attachment to New Zealand landscape, and her delight and wonder in the natural world.
这是由多萝西-里奇蒙(Dorothy Richmond)创作的最有名和最漂亮的水彩画。埃格蒙特山是新西兰风景艺术中最常见的主题之一。它通过简单的方式构建：艺术家保留了大部分前景，创造了空间感，并利用纸的白色作为她的设计元素之一。画面左侧，一棵漂白的树指向灌木丛后面被白雪覆盖的山峰，山的轮廓映衬着清澈的蓝天。这幅宁静的作品完成于画家生命的最后几年，多萝西也许想表达她对新西兰风景的着迷，以及她对自然世界的喜悦和惊奇。
Richmond was the daughter of James Crowe Richmond, a prominent colonist and noted watercolorist who encouraged his daughter to take up painting. From 1878 to 1880 she attended the Slade School of Art in London; in 1889 she travelled in Europe with her father. After his death in 1898 she again returned to England, where she worked at, among other places, Newlyn, an artists’colony in Cornwall and base for painters committed to outdoor working and natural light effects.
多萝西是詹姆斯-克劳-里奇蒙(James Crowe Richmond)的女儿，詹姆斯是一位著名的殖民者和水彩画家，他鼓励他的女儿学习绘画。从1878年到1880年，她就读于伦敦的斯莱德艺术学院；1889年，她随父亲游历欧洲。1898年詹姆斯去世后，她再次回到英国，在纽林等地工作，那里是康沃尔郡的艺术家聚集地，也是致力于户外写生和自然光效果的画家的基地。
In 1903 Richmond returned to New Zealand accompanied by Frances Hodgkins. Unlike Hodgkins, she remained in Wellington, becoming a central figure in the city’s artistic life. She was especially renowned for the transparency and delicacy of her watercolors; she acquired a reputation for flower painting and landscapes of the Wellington bays and countryside.
1903年，里奇蒙在弗朗西斯-霍奇金斯( Frances Hodgkins)的陪同下回到新西兰。与霍奇金斯不同，她留在了惠灵顿，成为这座城市艺术生活的中心人物。她尤其以通透精致的水彩画而闻名，也在花卉画以及惠灵顿海湾和乡村风景画领域享有盛誉。
We present today's painting thanks to the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. :)
感谢新西兰蒂帕帕汤加雷瓦博物馆与我们分享今天的画作:)
