Landscape painting
Bock & Cousins :New Zealand Industrial Exhibition, Wellington, 1885. Certificate of awa...
Date: 1885
From: [Various artists] :[Exhibition certificates 1865-1924]
By: Bock & Cousins Lithographers (Firm)
Reference: C-098-009
Description: Exhibition certificate with decorative border using Maori carving and weaving patterns. Within the border are 5 circular vignettes, showing First Church Dunedin, Government House Wellington, the New Zealand seal, Custom House Auckland and Victoria Bridge with the Provincial Council Chambers, Christchurch. In the bottom half framed on the left by a tree fern and flax and on the right by a nikau are the wharves and Post Office building in Wellington, the New Zealand Industrial Exhibition buildings and a Maori man and woman, with Mount Taranaki as a background. Surrounding the printed and hand-written text is a border of leaves and grasses (toetoe, hoheria and maidenhair fern) with taiahas and tekotekos (carved Maori weapons) on both sides Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph with holograph 460 x 355 mm
Mayor of Wellington Michael Fowler, property developer Bob Jones, and art dealer Peter ...
Date: [ca 7 Aug 1979]
From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers
By: Nicholson, John, active 1997
Reference: EP/1979/2782-F
Description: Mayor of Wellington Michael Fowler, property developer Bob Jones, and art dealer Peter McLeavy, and a 1978 painting by Sir Toss Woollaston called 'Mounts Owen, Arthur and Campbell from Motueka' at the Peter McLeavey Gallery, Cuba Street, Wellington, circa 7 August 1979. Photographed by Evening Post staff photographer John Nicholson. Bob Jones bought the painting for the City Gallery in Wellington. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) negative strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm
Bock & Cousins :New Zealand Industrial Exhibition, Wellington, 1885. Certificate of awa...
Date: 1885
From: [Various artists] :[Exhibition certificates 1865-1924]
By: Bock & Cousins Lithographers (Firm)
Reference: C-098-011
Description: Exhibition certificate with decorative border using Maori carving and weaving patterns. Within the border are 5 circular vignettes, showing First Church Dunedin, Government House Wellington, the New Zealand seal, Custom House Auckland and Victoria Bridge with the Provincial Council Chambers, Christchurch. In the bottom half framed on the left by a tree fern and flax and on the right by a nikau are the wharves and Post Office building in Wellington, the New Zealand Industrial Exhibition buildings and a Maori man and woman, with Mount Taranaki as a background. Surrounding the printed and hand-written text is a border of leaves and grasses (toetoe, hoheria and maidenhair fern) with taiahas and tekotekos (carved Maori weapons) on both sides Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph with holograph 460 x 355 mm
Interview with Faye Hill
Date: 3 Sep 1995 - 03 Sep 1995
From: Artists of Banks Peninsula oral history project
By: Hill, Irene Faye, 1923-2014
Reference: OHInt-0408-04
Description: Talks of her childhood, her training as a painter with Paul Olds, and her work as a photographer with Archives during WW II. Discusses her involvement with the Womens Collective, Akaroa Arts Council, and associations with other New Zealand artists - Elva Bett, Janet Paul, Kitty Duncan and Toss Woollaston. Interviewer(s) - Rachel Lord Quantity: 1 C90 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 1.15 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-1590. 8 photographs of artist and her works Search dates: 1923 - 1995
Interview with Ernest Gill
Date: 31 Mar 1994
From: The Men in Our Lives oral history project
By: Gill, Ernest James, 1908-2002
Reference: OHInt-0406-03
Description: Born London and attended Biggen Hill school to age 12 and a half years. Describes life and events leading up to his parents death and coming to New Zealand with his sister and brother-in-law in 1927 on assisted passages. Got a bridge-building job with Ministry of Works at Whaitahe, then built the Kokopu Bridge near Mangamahu. Describes how they started Gill & Co. Carriers Ltd. and its expansion. Mentions the Napier earthquake and the tornado in 1950. Ernest served on the Board of Governors of Hikurangi Old People's Home, was in Rotary for 38 years and was Provist at St Chads. He sold his business in 1966 and retired to take up landscape painting. One of his paintings was bought by the City Council (Wanganui) to present to Prince Edward after his year teaching at Wanganui Collegiate. Abstracted by - Susan Hawes Interviewer(s) - Susan Hawes Recorded by - Susan Hawes Venue - 10 Porritt Street, Wanganui Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-006741 Tape numbers - OHC-006742 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 2 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 1527. 6 Photographs - (1) Cover photograph - (2) Ernest Gill, Tatsfield, England (1911) - (3) Ernest Gill, choirboy, ca 1916 - (4) Gill and Co. Carriers 1950, outside Wanganui Museum on site of 1967 extension. (5) Gill and Co. Carriers, unloading the Port Bowen, Wangnaui, (1939) and (6) Ernest Gill, Airforce, 1943-1944.
'Landscape into painting'; a talk by Janet Paul
Date: 25 Nov 1981
From: Blackwood and Janet Paul recordings
Reference: OHInt-0547/26
Description: An address to the Friends of the Turnbull Library discussing the particular responses to the New Zealand landscape made by people who saw it for the first time up until 1865. The slides used are mainly drawn from the collection of Alexander Turnbull Library. Quantity: 1 C90 cassette(s). 1 event(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - no abstract(s) available.
Janet Paul talking about Rita Angus
Date: 1993
From: Blackwood and Janet Paul recordings
Reference: OHInt-0547/20
Description: Quantity: 1 C90 cassette(s). 1 event(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - no abstract(s) available.
Janet Paul talks on 'the untrained artists' view'
Date: 12 Nov 1990
From: Blackwood and Janet Paul recordings
Reference: OHInt-0547/23
Description: Slide talk on 'The untrained artists' view: an answer to Francis Pound's 'Frames on the land'', originally given to the Friends of Auckland City Art Gallery and repeated at Kay and John Roberts, Central Terrace, Kelburn, Wellington. Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 event(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - no abstract(s) available.
New Zealand Fellowship of Artists (Inc) :Exhibition of a selection of entries received ...
Date: 1958
By: New Zealand Fellowship of Artists
Reference: ArtEph-1958-K-01
Description: Catalogue lists 234 art works entered in the competition. The adjudicator was M Napier Waller esq., O.B.E. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print on sheets, 262 x 207 mm, stapled
Landscape painting by T R Neilson
Date: 7 Oct 1970
From: K E Niven and Co :Commercial negatives
Reference: 1/2-225284-F
Description: Copy - Landscape painting by T R Neilson taken for C Haines, on 7 Oct 1970 by K E Niven and Co, commercial photographers of Wellington. Other - Reference number 589/70. C Haines c/n of painting Quantity: 1 colour original negative(s). Physical Description: Dye coupler negative
Turnbull, Evelyn Adelaide 1888-1957 : Inward correspondence
Date: 1921, 1940-1957
By: Turnbull, Evelyn Adelaide, 1888-1957
Reference: MS-Papers-3919
Description: Letters from friends and fellow artists referring to works exhibited by Turnbull, art in New Zealand and personal matters Accompanying material - Accompanied by letter from donor containing biographical information Evelyn Turnbull was a Wellington landscape painter Quantity: 1 folder(s) (19 pieces). Physical Description: Mss, typescript and printed matter
Artist unknown :[A Miscellany of English engravings] - London, [mid-nineteenth century]
Date: 1800 - 1850
Reference: A-125-015/021
Description: Portraits, landscapes, shells and flowers See shelf-list for detailed descriptions Quantity: 7 b&w art print(s) One item hand-coloured. Physical Description: Engravings, b&w, 304 x 198 mm or smaller
Klee, Paul 1898-1940 :Landscape with yellow birds. Harmondsworth, Penguin 1948
Date: 1948
By: Klee, Paul, 1898-1940; Penguin Books (Firm : N.Z.); Fleck, Henry Baxter, 1905-1971
Reference: B-106-034
Description: Non-representational work In folder with accompanying notes Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Coloured photolithograph 270 x 340 mm in folder 440 x 340 mm (Penguin Print, no. 2)
Bromhead, Peter, 1933- :Everything you always wanted to know about landscape painting. ...
Date: 1970 - 1990
From: Bromhead, Peter, 1933- :[Collection of fourteen] "lightweight" (3 oz) drawings (in the semi-modern style)(unpublished) by Peter Bromhead. 1970-1980s].
Reference: A-334-111
Description: Shows a row of treess in the foreground, backed by hills, clouds, sky and pinned-on crescent moon. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Felt tip on card, 255 x 380 mm. Provenance: Donated by the artist in 1997.
Portrait of an unidentified woman on show at the Kelliher Art Show, August 1957
Date: August 1957
From: Hill, Morris James, 1929-2002 :Negatives of Wellington, and national events and personalities
Reference: 1/2-177284-F
Description: Portrait of an unidentified woman on show at the Kelliher Art Show. Photograph taken in August 1957 at the National Art Gallery by Morrie Hill. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).
"How was the exhibition?" "Oh, you know, full of Constablely goodness..." 26 July, 2006
Date: 2006
From: Buist, Grant, 1973- : [Jitterati digital cartoons published in The Capital Times newspaper]
Reference: DCDL-0008316
Description: "Jitterati" cartoon strip. Shows Debbie asking Jaimee how the John Constable exhibition was. Jaimee says is it was full of his goodness - clouds at the top, cows at the bottom and landscape in between - which is the correct arrangement for those elements. Debbie says it isn't if you are a surrealist. Tony adds that it isn't if the painting's upside down. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
Judges at the Kelliher Art Show, August 1957
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).
Bock & Cousins :New Zealand Industrial Exhibition, Wellington, 1885. Certificate of awa...
Date: 1885
From: [Various artists] :[Exhibition certificates 1865-1924]
By: Bock & Cousins Lithographers (Firm)
Reference: C-098-010
Description: Exhibition certificate with decorative border using Maori carving and weaving patterns. Within the border are 5 circular vignettes, showing First Church Dunedin, Government House Wellington, the New Zealand seal, Custom House Auckland and Victoria Bridge with the Provincial Council Chambers, Christchurch. In the bottom half framed on the left by a tree fern and flax and on the right by a nikau are the wharves and Post Office building in Wellington, the New Zealand Industrial Exhibition buildings and a Maori man and woman, with Mount Taranaki as a background. Surrounding the printed and hand-written text is a border of leaves and grasses (toetoe, hoheria and maidenhair fern) with taiahas and tekotekos (carved Maori weapons) on both sides Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph with holograph 460 x 355 mm
The painting 'Rangitikei River' by Peter McIntryre
Date: August 1957
From: Hill, Morris James, 1929-2002 :Negatives of Wellington, and national events and personalities
Reference: 1/2-177285-F
Description: The painting 'Rangitikei River' by Peter McIntryre during the Kelliher Art Prize competition at the National Art gallery, Wellington. Catalogue number 25. Photograph taken in August 1957 by Morrie Hill. Source of descriptive information - Painting identified in Richard King, The Kelliher : 67 award winning paintings (Auckland [N.Z.] : Orakau House, 1979), plate 4 This painting won 3rd prize at the 1957 Kelliher Art Prize awards. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).
Kelliher Art Show, August 1957
Date: August 1957
From: Hill, Morris James, 1929-2002 :Negatives of Wellington, and national events and personalities
Reference: 1/2-177286-F
Description: Landscape painting in the Kelliher Art Competition, photographed on the walls of the National Art Gallery, Wellington. Catalogue number 17. Photograph taken in August 1957 by Morrie Hill. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).