Maclennan, Stewart Bell, 1903-1973

Date: 1901-1938

From: Maclennan, John, 1870-1911 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-8147-8

Description: Correspondence, loose scraps of poems and writing, some printed. Includes photocopies of correspondence between C R H Taylor and Stewart Maclennan, and obituary by Jessie Mackay. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1950 - 1959

By: Clark, Russell Stuart Cedric, 1905-1966; Edwards, Henry Phillip, 1913?-1987; Ellis, Frederick Vincent, 1892-1961; ICI New Zealand; McIntyre, Peter, 1910-1995; Maclennan, Stewart Bell, 1903-1973; Mason, Frank Henry, 1876-1965; New Zealand free lance (Newspaper); Taylor, Ernest Mervyn, 1906-1964; Waghorn, Reginald James, 1898-1987; Woods, George, 1898-1963

Reference: Eph-C-CALENDAR-1950s

Description: Includes calendars: 1951: Imperial Chemicals (N.Z.) Ltd. The growth of a colony; original pen drawings by Russell Clark. [Calendar 1951]. New Zealand Free Lance calendar 1951 (showing a reproduction of a painting by Allan Mitchell, of "High summer East Cape - end of day on the road - the long trek from Te Araroa to Taneatua"). 1952: Imperial Chemical Industries (N.Z.) Ltd. Nga Rangatira (The chiefs). [Calendar. 1952]. Pen portraits by Henry Edwards. Includes portraits of Hongi (1777-1828), Tamati Ngaporo (1804-1885), Tamati Waka Nene (1780-1871), Rewi (1815-1894), Wiremu Tamehana (1800-1866), King Tawhiao (1825-1894). (2 copies) 1953: Imperial Chemical Industries (N.Z.) Ltd. [New Zealand historical scenes sketched by Peter McIntyre. Calendar. 1953]. (2 copies) New Zealand Free Lance calendar 1953. [featuring a portrait of Queen Elizabeth II]. 1954: Imperial Chemical Industries. Original lino-cuts by Stewart Maclennan. [Calendar. 1954]. (2 copies) 1955: Imperial Chemical Industries(N.Z.) Ltd. A series of Polynesian legends by E Mervyn Taylor, George Woods, Russell Clark, Henry Edwards, Peter McIntyre, S B Maclennan. [Calendar 1955]. 1956: Imperial Chemical Industries (N.Z.) Ltd. A selection of New Zealand paintings from the National Art Gallery. [Calendar]. 1956. 2 copies. Includes works by Nugent Welch, Sydney L Thompson, Cedric Savage, J C Hoyte, Cecil F Kelly, H Linley Richardson 1957: Imperial Chemical Industries (N.Z.) Ltd. Power in New Zealand; original drawings by R J Waghorn. [Calendar]. 1957. 1958: Imperial Chemical Industries (N.Z.) Ltd. University institutions of New Zealand; original pencil drawings by F V Ellis. [Calendar]. 1958. (2 copies, one donated 2003) New Zealand Shipping Company. New Zealand Line. "When sails beat steam"; an episode in the roaring forties in 1895 - sailing vessel Turakina and steamship Ruapehu. From a painting by Frank H Mason. [Calendar] 1958. [Signed: B C D'Arcy Maxwell (4th Officer S S "Ruapehu" at the time) Nelson N.Z. 1958]. 1959: Exide Batteries of New Zealand Limited. Calendar 1959 .. with reproductions from a series of twelve colour photographs Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd. A selection of early colonial water colours from the Alexander Turnbull Library. [Calendar. 1959]. 2 copies. Includes works by G H Page, William Fox, George Grey, G F Von Tempsky, William Packe, and E C Wyvill. New Zealand Free Lance annual. Calendar 1959 ("Roadside scene, Lake Wanaka, Otago"; presentation plate issued with New Zealand free lance annual 1958) Quantity: 14 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on calendars (plus some duplicates). Physical Description: Offset lithographs, varying sizes.

Date: 2014 - 2015

Reference: Eph-E-UNIVERSITY-Otago-2015-01

Description: Calendar which can be used on either side, as each has a full chart of the months of the year 2014. One side shows a reproduction of a work by an unknown Cantonese artist of missionary Alexander Don and a young Chinese man, and the other reproduces a linocut by Stewart McLennan. Includes notes on each art work by Natalie Poland, Curator of Pictorial Collections, Hocken Collections, University of Otago. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print on both sides of sheet, 840 x 595 mm. Provenance: Donated by Otago University in 2014.

Date: 1959

By: National Art Gallery (N.Z.)

Reference: ArtEph-1959-N-03

Description: Catalogue of 96 exhibits at the exhibition. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Offset print on sheet, 215 x 420 mm, folded to 215 x 140 mm.

Date: 1939

By: Maclennan, Stewart Bell, 1903-1973

Reference: A-257-007

Description: Two women and a man standing by a railing on a path beneath large trees Pasted on board Print number 3 of an edition of 10 Dating: with the addition of the letters ARCA to the artist's name, the work is likely to date from 1939, the year MacLennan graduated from the Royal College of Art Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Titled and numbered in pencil. Bottom right, signed in pencil S B MacLennan ARCA; bottom left - "3/10" Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, coloured 294 x 360 mm

Date: January 1968

By: Maclennan, Stewart Bell, 1903-1973; Castle, Maureen, 1933-2018

Reference: D-045-003

Description: Selection of musical instruments collected by Ronald and Zillah Castle: three stringed instruments, including a hurdy gurdy, a viol da gamba and a viola d'amore; brass and wood wind instruments; and a harpsichord, and a spinet. Attached to the back of the framing is a hand-written note that reads: "Painted for Miss Zillah Castle at the request of Miss Mavis Castle. Stewart Maclennan January 1968". Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Stewart Maclennan / January 1968 [in brushpoint] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) framed. Physical Description: Watercolour on paper, 800 x 640 mm (in matt)

Date: 1960 - 1979

By: Bett, Elva Lilian, 1918-2016

Reference: Eph-A-CARDS-Christmas-Bett

Description: Includes cards from: Folder 1: 1. Osborne Fine Arts Ltd (shows drawing by Burt "Corner Molesworth and Tinakori Road", 1968) 2. Harold and Edith Miller ("The Remarkables and Lake Wakatipu" by Aston Greathead) 3. Dorothy Hamilton ("Passion flower" wood engraving by S B Maclennan) 4. Phyl and Ron Wheeler ("New Zealand coast scene" by the late Hon Mrs K Airini Vane) Folder 2: 5. Terry Stringer (handmade card with moving part) Folder 3: 6. [Stark?] and Billie, Paremata. (Purchased card showing nativity scene) 7. John (UNICEF card showing "Heroine writing a letter" by Rajasthani Mewar A.D. 1700) 8. Lesley and Ian (Flying Santa by Wayne Anderson, Gallery Five, printed in England) 9. David ...? (UNICEF card 1971, showing "Light in space", by Gino Severini 1912) 10. [Janine?] (design by Bjorn Winblad, Denmark). 1972 Folder 4: 11. Graeme, Patricia and Warwick ("Beguinage at Bruges" by Sir Winston Churchill) 12. Irene and Sarah Buxton (Standing figure of Kuan Yin, goddess of mercy and fertility, shown at Govett-Brewster Gallery, 15 May - 1 July 1973) 13. Graeme and Pat Dowling (Indian miniature, Mursimdabad, 1760) 14. Graeme and Patricia. ("Blue rose", by Jeremy Moon, 1967) 15. Graeme, Pat and family ("Harlequin on horseback", by Pablo Picasso) 16. Tanya, John and Tony Gian (shows embossed abstract print) 17. Stephanie Till (John Hoyland "17.3.69", 1969) 18. Govett-Brewster Art Gallery ("Plane divider" 1970, by Ron Davis, b 1937) Quantity: 4 folder(s) 18 cards. Physical Description: Relief prints and offsets on cards, sizes varying Provenance: From the collection of Elva Bett.

From: Various artists :A series of Polynesian legends by E Mervyn Taylor, George Woods, Russell Clark, Henry Edwards, Peter McIntyre, S B MacLennan. [Wellington, I C I, 1955]

By: Maclennan, Stewart Bell, 1903-1973

Reference: E-205-q-027

Description: An image in red, black and grey showing Maui as an eagle escaping from Mahiu-ika, the fire goddess. Accompanied by a description of the legend 'told by Pember Reeves' One of a group of six Polynesian legends, published as a set of small reproductions for ICI calendars, ca 1960 Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph of linocut 152 x 203 mm

Date: 1947

By: Peter, Juliet, 1915-2010

Reference: B-104-018

Description: Shows the subject seated in an armchair Mr MacLennan was director, National Art Gallery. He was also an artist Barc was the pseudonym of artist Helen Crabb Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 470 x 320 mm

Date: 8 June 1967

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: EP/1967/2960-F

Description: Portrait of artist and director of the National Art Gallery Stewart Maclennan and Parliamentary Historian Dr Alexander Maclintock. Photographed by an Evening Post staff photographer on the 8th of June 1967. These men were responsable for the design of New Zealand's new decimal notes Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) 35mm negative strip comprising 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate film negative, 35mm

Date: 1974 - 1976

From: Roberts, Rex, fl 1970-1990s (collector) :[Collection of art exhibition and dealers' catalogues, 1914-1999].

By: Auckland City Art Gallery; Barrington Gallery; Govett-Brewster Art Gallery; J H Bethune and Company Ltd; Kent-Prier Real Estate Ltd; M McKearney & Company; McGregor Wright Gallery; New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts

Reference: E-929-F-006

Description: Includes: Auction catalogues: J H Bethune & Co Ltd. Auctions 18 June 1975; 10 September 1975; 26 November 1975. Canterbury Fine Art and antique auctions, Kent Prier Real Estate Ltd. Auction on 10 November 1976. M McKearney & Co Ltd. Auctions 16 May 1975; 29 August 1975; 5 December 1975. Periodicals: Monographs (catalogues): David Armitage; a survey exhibition. Dunedin Public Art Gallery 1974. Auckland City Art Gallery. New Zealand's women painters. June 1975. Auckland City Art Gallery. Helen F V Scales. December 1975. Auckland City Art Gallery. New Zealand drawing 1976. Barrington Gallery. Figurative art now : 9 New Zealand artists : inaugural exhibition March 1975. (Artists Brent Wong, Alvin Pankhurst, Robert McLeod, Rob Taylor, Alistair Nisbet-Smith, Philip Clairmont, Wong Sing Tai, John Lethbridge, Ross Ritchie) Bennett, Mike. Jacksons Bay centenary, 1874-1974, South Westland. [1974] Molly Morpeth Canaday, 1903-1971; a retrospective exhibition of paintings from 1936-1969. National Art Gallery of New Zealand. 1974. Face value; a study in Maori portraiture. Dunedin Public Art Gallery, 1975. Govett-Brewster Art Gallery. The Kim Wright collection of New Zealand painting. 1974. McGregor Wright Gallery. Invitation exhibition of paintings by twelve leading NZ artists. Auckland. 21 June - 4 July 1974. McGregor Wright Gallery. R B Watson 1974 exhibition. National Art Gallery of New Zealand. Stewart Bell Maclennan 1903-1973, the complete artist. 1976. National Bank Art awards. 1975. New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts. R J Waghorn; invited exhibition of retrospective and current work. 10 December 1973 to 6th January 1974. Robert McDougall Art Gallery. New Zealand painting 1920-1940; adaptation and nationalism. A Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council Exhibition organized by the Robert McDougall Art Gallery. 1975. Robert McDougall Art Gallery. Russell Clark 1905-1966; a retrospective exhibition. 1975. Quantity: 17 monographs and 7 auction catalogues. Physical Description: Booklets and monographs sizes varying. Provenance: Donated by Mr Rex Roberts in 2003.

Date: 1925 - 1950

By: Andersen, Johannes Carl, 1873-1962; Graham, David Henry, 1885-1965; Wiseman, Hilda Alexandra, 1894-1982; Barnett, Percy Neville, 1881-1953; Bensemann, Leo Vernon, 1912-1986; Callander, Ivy, active 1930s; Champ, Stephen Fergus, 1907-1984; Clark, Russell Stuart Cedric, 1905-1966; Fisher, Archibald Joseph Charles, 1896-1959; Garlick, Eunice Harriett, 1883-1951; Garmonsway, (Mr?), active 1930s; Hall, Lancelot, active 1932; Herbert, Phil S, active 1948; Holloway, Ronald, 1909-2003; Maclennan, Stewart Bell, 1903-1973; McAuslan, Gordon S, 1913-1996; Parker, Nancy Martyr, 1913-2008; Peterson, Archibald Stuart, 1900-1976; Rule, Percival Watts, 1889-1953; Taylor, Ernest Mervyn, 1906-1964; Tornquist, Herbert Richard, 1897-1969

Reference: BOOKPLATES-NZ-Framed

Description: J A Allen (by Garmonsway, 1935) Eugene Aubin (by Leo Bensemann, 1937) Lawrence Baigent (two by Leo Bensemann, ca 1937) Sadie Balkind (by Leo Bensemann, 1935) Leo Bensemann (two by himself, 1937 and 1933) M Bensemann (by Leo Bensemann, 1930s?) S C Brown (by Russell Clark, 1947) Rey Byrne (by Leo Bensemann, 1930s?) Ivy Callander (two by herself, ca 1932) Raymond Carroll (by Leo Bensemann, 1930s?) Marguerite Crookes (by Hilda Wiseman, n.d.) A R D (by Gordon McAuslan, 1934) I Dallas (by Gordon McAuslan, 1935) Stella M Davis (by Mervyn Taylor) Dieu-Donnee (by Garmonsway, 1935) Basil Dowling (by Leo Bensemann, n.d.) Charles Fleming (by Hilda Wiseman, 1940s?)C E G? (by Hilda Wiseman, 1937) Una Garlick (by herself, 1931) Lancelot Hall (by himself. 1932) David H Graham (by Mervyn Taylor, 1952) Edelweiss [Henderson] (by Mervyn Taylor, n.d.) Phil S Herbert (by himself, 1948) Julius Hogben (by Mervyn Taylor, 1947) Pat Lawlor (by Gordon McAuslan, 1930s?) E P Liddell (by Gordon McAuslan, n.d.) A McA? (by Hilda Wiseman, 1938) A R McElwain (by Llewellyn Williams, n.d.) I McLelland (by Gordon McAuslan, 1938) Stewart B McLennan (by himself, n.d.) David McC? (by Hilda Wiseman, 1944) Jane Mander (by Ronald Holloway, 1930s) Jane Mander (by Stephen F Champ, 1934) New Zealand Ex Libris Society (by Stuart Peterson, 1930s?) Barbara Parker (by Mervyn Taylor, 1947) P Roach Pierson (by P Watts Rule, 1934) D G Reilly (by Mervyn Taylor, 1946) Douglas Robb (by A J C Fisher, ca 1931) Percy Watts Rule (by himself, 1935) Sally Simmons (by Leo Bensemann, ca 1935) E C Simpson (by Mervyn Taylor, n.d.) Edward C Simpson (by Nancy Parker, n.d.) Cynthia Smart (by Mervyn Taylor, 1951) Colin W Smith (unknown artist and date) Sydney Smith (by Mervyn Taylor, 1952) Charles Spear (by Leo Bensemann, 1937) E Mervyn Taylor (by himself, 1935) Jane Taylor (by Mervyn Taylor, ca 1949-1950) Margaret Taylor (by E Mervyn Taylor, 1935) Mrs N Thompson (by Gordon McAuslan, 1935) Richard Tornquist (by Herbert R Tornquist, n.d.) T C Ward (by Hilda Wiseman, 1946) Llewellyn E Williams (by Stuart Peterson, 1930s?) Jean Wilson (by Hilda Wiseman, ca 1930) Hilda Wiseman (two by herself, 1925 and 1930) C F Wrigley (by Ronald Holloway, ca 1940) Exhibited in 'Ex Libris: New Zealand bookplates 1925-1950' Exhibition at the National Library Gallery in 1992. Quantity: 64 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engravings, etchings

Date: 1951

From: Reed, Alexander Wyclif, 1908-1979 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0199-04

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: [ca 1957]

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

By: Maclennan, Stewart Bell, 1903-1973

Reference: EP/1957/4733-F

Description: Photograph taken for the Evening Post newspaper of Wellington by an unidentified staff photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative 6.5 x 6.5 inches

Date: August 1957

From: Hill, Morris James, 1929-2002 :Negatives of Wellington, and national events and personalities

Reference: 1/2-177283-F

Description: Kelliher Prize judges, Robert Johnson (left) and Stewart McLennan, photographed in the National Art Gallery, Wellington, standing beside a pile of paintings leaning against the wall. Other paintings can be seen on the wall. Photograph taken in August 1957 by Morrie Hill. Source of descriptive information - Library client identified the men in this photograph as Stewart Johnson and Stewart McLennan, judges for the 1957 Kelliher Prize, May 2009. Robert Johnson was a New Zealand born Australian landscape painter. Stewart McLennan was an artist and, from 1947 to 1968, director of the National Art Gallery in Wellington, New Zealand. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1957

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: EP/1957/2932-F

Description: Photograph taken for the Evening Post newspaper of Wellington by an unidentified staff photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative 6.5 x 6.5 inches

Date: August 1957

From: Hill, Morris James, 1929-2002 :Negatives of Wellington, and national events and personalities

Reference: 1/2-177287-F

Description: Kelliher Prize judges, Robert Johnson (left) and Stewart McLennan, photographed in the National Art Gallery, Wellington, standing beside a pile of paintings leaning against the wall. Other paintings can be seen on the wall. Photograph taken in August 1957 by Morrie Hill. Source of descriptive information - Library client identified the two men in this photograph as Robert Johnson and Stewart McLennan, judges for the 1957 Kelliher Prize, May 2009. Robert Johnson was a New Zealand born, Australian landscape painter. Stewart McLennan was an artist and, from 1947 to 1968, director of the National Art Gallery in Wellington, New Zealand. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 11 Oct 1957

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

By: Maclennan, Stewart Bell, 1903-1973

Reference: EP/1957/3965-F

Description: Photograph taken for the Evening Post newspaper of Wellington by an unidentified staff photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 6.5 x 6.5 cm

Date: [ca 1948-1949]

By: Fry, Bryan Derek, 1923-1999; Fry, Patricia Susan, 1924-2019

Reference: 1/4-057200

Description: Photograph shows the art studio of Helen Priscilla Crabb (also known as 'Barc') in Hobson Street, Wellington, circa 1948-1949, on a practice night with artists and students. Helen Stewart, Sydney Higgs, Stewart Maclennan, Patricia Fry and Marjory Mills are seated around a bay window drawing Mrs Beverly Morris. Photographer was B D Fry. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 8 Jul 1960

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: EP/1960/2422-F

Description: Photograph taken for the Evening Post newspaper of Wellington by an unidentified staff photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 6.5 x 6.5 cm