IMAGE
Clark, Judith Ann, 1931-2014: Photographs
- Date
- [ca 1880s or 1890s] and 1910-2012
- By
- Clark, Judith Ann, 1931-2014
- Reference
- PA-Group-01022
- Description
Photographs collected by, and relating to, Judith Clark and her family, taken between circa 1880 and circa 2012 by a range of photographers. The collection is mainly images of people, many of Judith Clark over the course of her lifetime, as well as friends, family, students, colleagues, and other people in the music world. The collection is in two distinct sets: family photographs, and photographs from her professional and social life.
Many images show Judith Clark with her mother Ivy Clark (nee Martis). They also feature various extended Martis family members including Judith Clark's aunts, cousins, and maternal grandmother. One image shows Charles Suckling, Judith Clark's great grandfather.
Photographs relating to Judith Clark's work as a piano teacher include images of her students and images relating to her work with The Institute of Registered Music Teachers (IMRT). She is also photographed with other musicians, with identified people including Michael Houstoun, Richard Mapp, Deidre Irons, Lili Krause, Douglas Lilburn, and Carlo Zecchi.
Some images (prints and 35mm negatives) show Judith Clark being made a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit in 1998 for her significant contribution to music in New Zealand.
Quarter plate negatives include images featuring Judith Clark as a child; she is pictured in costume and with two young boys. Negatives also show Ivy Clark, Dorothy Martis, unidentified women with houses and gardens, an unidentified woman at the beach with a camera around her neck, a view of a beach from high above, and a brick house with a circular window in the door.
Part of the Archive of New Zealand Music.
Title supplied by Library
Clark left New Zealand in 1955 to study music in London, Geneva, Paris, Salzburg, and Rome. She returned in 1963 to establish a private teaching practice in Wellington, was appointed lecturer in piano performance at Victoria University in 1976, and worked with the Society, later Institute, of Registered Music Teachers.
Quantity: 364 colour original photographic print(s). 221 b&w original photographic print(s). 28 b&w original negative(s). 10 b&w copy photographic print(s). 5 album(s). 2 colour original negative(s) strips, with 7 images. 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s).
Physical Description: Photographic prints, negatives, and albums
Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Group-2337 - Photographs from the archive of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra were returned to that collection at Archives New Zealand. Photocopies of the images were kept at MS-Papers-12064..
- Additional description
Quarter-plate film negative ¼-125506 treated (unfolded) humidified and flattened between blotters and under weights. 2 May 2016
- Use/Reproduction
- Please ask Library for permission to reproduce items from this collection. Copyright: Copyright must be checked.
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted material - Some items in the collection require curator assistance for retrieval and viewing.
- Format
- 364 colour original photographic print(s), 221 b&w original photographic print(s), 28 b&w original negative(s), 10 b&w copy photographic print(s), 5 album(s), 2 colour original negative(s) strips, with 7 images, 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s), Photographs, Photographic prints, negatives, and albums
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Copyright
UnknownPhotograph album of Clark and friends
Date: [1950s]-2006
From: Clark, Judith Ann, 1931-2014: Photographs
By: Sparrow, Margaret June (Dame), 1935-
Reference: PA1-o-1941
Description: Album of photographs of Judith Clark and other people in [1950s] and [1980s]-2006, taken by unidentified photographers. Some images have handwritten captions on floral stickers and some on reverse of prints. The cover image is a head and shoulders portrait of Clark taken in 1998. Contains photographs that mainly feature Clark and other people at social gatherings and parties, with some people identified. One image shows a conga line dance. Other images of note include Clark "with Betty and Bryan" on Auckland waterfront during an Institute of Registered Music Teachers of New Zealand conference (2002); 'The Family of Man', an unfinished cast bronze sculpture by Babara Hepworth, with large building in the background, at Snape Maltings; Clark with Kate Miller at Aldeburgh, in Suffolk, United Kingdom; a Zonta Christmas party (1981); "Ian and Val" (1997); a baby in white and adults in formal clothing, inside a church labelled "Rose Bromley"; a portrait of an unidentified wedding party taken inside a house; Clark with [her students?] Hao Chen and Piers Lane, and Clark sitting at a piano with Hao Chen holding flowers and trophies; and Clark petting a young deer. Quantity: 1 album(s) containing 20 colour original photographic prints and one black and white original print. Physical Description: Plastic flipbook album with some annotations 16 x 12.5 cm
Live in Budapest
Date: [ca 1990s]
From: Clark, Judith Ann, 1931-2014: Photographs
Reference: PA1-o-1942
Description: Album containing photographs of Judith Clark and Ruth Harte in Budapest, taken circa 1990s by an unidentified photographer/s. Includes images of Clark and Harte photographing tourist sights and scenes and posing for photographs, travelling by carriage, and relaxing in cafes. Identified locations are Szentenre, the Fisherman's Bastion, Miro cafe, and the Liszt Academy. Also an image of a piano and a bust of Béla Bartók captioned "our hero". Title from item Quantity: 1 album(s) containing 10 and 2 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Home-made concertina photograph album with photographs, handwritten and typed inscriptions adhered, 17 x 17 cm
Professional and social life
Date: 1953-2012
From: Clark, Judith Ann, 1931-2014: Photographs
By: Pruden, Penny, active 1930-1998; Woolf, Ronald D, 1930-1987
Reference: PAColl-10457-3
Description: Photographs of Clark's professional and social life, 1953-2012, taken by mainly unidentified photographers. Features images of Clark with various people including students, colleagues, and friends. Some images are at parties, social events, and concerts. Identified people include John Hopkins, Barry Empson, Lili Kraus, and Douglas Lilburn. Also includes portraits of Clark at various ages and portraits with groups of her students, including some proof sheets. Clark's time overseas while studying music (1955-1963) is covered. Photographs showing her on board a ship, with fellow students at an unidentified railway station, on a camel in Cairo, and posing with other students and teachers including Carlo Zecchi. Her attendance at music conferences and workshops (1970s-2012) is also covered, with photographs including group portraits from Institute of Registered Music Teachers of New Zealand conferences, 2011, 2012, undated [1990s?], and images labelled “ZONTA and HLIPC”. Other photographs include the interior and exterior of a house and Clark next to a Lockwood sign, a proof sheet of a piano being moved into a house [1982?], and a concert at an unidentified venue. Also contains some images that were sent to Clark by friends, with the accompanying correspondence (or copies) included. Clark moved into a brand new house in Albemarle Road, Northland in 1982 and replaced her Bechstein piano with a Kawai grand. Quantity: 48 b&w original photographic print(s) Three are proof sheets. 88 colour original photographic print(s) One is a proof sheet. 4 b&w copy photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints and dye coupler prints
Professional and social life
Date: 1996-2011
From: Clark, Judith Ann, 1931-2014: Photographs
By: Photography by Woolf Ltd
Reference: PAColl-10457-4
Description: Photographs taken by mainly unidentified photographers between 1996 and 2011. Mainly images of Judith with various people including students, colleagues, and friends, many unidentified. Some images are at parties, social events, and concerts, and show people eating, drinking, socialising, and performing piano duets. Identified people include Ruth Harte, Graham Dreadon, Michael Houstoun, and Margaret Sparrow. In some images Clark is in a wheelchair or using canes. In several she is speaking on the phone. In most she is wearing glasses. Also includes a set of prints from an unidentified event with musicians performing, proof sheet of portraits of individual students posed at a piano, and group portraits of students with Clark around a piano (1996). Formal and informal images show Clark at particular events, including the reception for her being awarded a Companion Order of Merit at Government House (1998) and her 80th birthday party in 2011 (with one set of photographs showing her cutting the cake). A further set of images show a garden and flowers with the inscription on the reverse reading “Name: Williamson Order No: 108[??] of Warehouse Stationery” and another set of prints are images that were sent to Clark by friends with the correspondence (or copies) included. Arrangement: Some prints have numbering on the reverse Quantity: 177 colour original photographic print(s). 3 b&w original photographic print(s) 1 single image and 2 proof sheets. Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints and dye coupler prints Transfers: See also PA1-o-1951.
Photograph album of garden photographs
Date: [ca 1990s]
From: Clark, Judith Ann, 1931-2014: Photographs
Reference: PA1-o-1943
Description: Photographs of Judith Clark taken circa 1990s by an unknown photographer. Images show her sitting in a chair in a garden, petting a young deer, and sitting in a car in a carport. The majority of the album is empty. Quantity: 1 album(s) containing 6. Physical Description: Plastic flipbook album containing 6 dye coupler photographic prints, 16 x 12.5 cm
Photograph album of a party
Date: 1997
From: Clark, Judith Ann, 1931-2014: Photographs
Reference: PA1-o-1951
Description: Photographs taken by an unidentified photographer in 1997. Shows a social event or party at a house. Judith and other (unidentified) people are shown talking, drinking, holding babies and children, playing the piano and keyboard, and eating. One image shows a table covered in food and plates, appears to be a pot-luck meal. Quantity: 1 album(s) containing 35. Physical Description: Plastic flipbook album with cardboard cover, containing 35 dye coupler photographic prints, 9 x 14.5 cm Transfers: See also PAColl-10457-4.
Family photographs
Date: [ca 1880s or 1890s] and 1910-1944
From: Clark, Judith Ann, 1931-2014: Photographs
By: McGrath, G, active 1941-1946; Peter Pan Studio; Valerie Studios (Wellington, N.Z.)
Reference: PAColl-10457-1
Description: Family photographs collected or inherited by Clark, taken by mainly unidentified photographers between circa 1880 and 1944. Identified photographers include "G. McGrath, Her Majesty's Arcade, Sydney", Peter Pan Photos (Karangahape Rd, Auckland), and Valerie Studios (Wellington). Some images have annotations on the reverse. Features various extended family members including Clark's mother Ivy Clark (nee Martis), Ivy Clark's mother Harriet Martis (nee Suckling), Harriet Martis' siblings Alfred Charles Martis, “Harry (L) and Ben (R)", and Harriet Martis' father Charles Suckling [1880s or 1890s?]. Also Ivy Clark's siblings and their children. One image shows an unidentified woman and baby [possibly Harriet Martis with baby Ivy? circa 1895?]. Other people identified by first name only include Ron, Ben, Hilda, Harry. Many images show Dorothy Martis as a child and adult, one in her nurse uniform. Other images show Dorothy, Ivy, and Felicity Martis as adults, posed in a garden, in front of a house (with a dog), and with other unidentified people. Also contains photographs of Felicity Martis and Gerald Gray on their wedding day, Dorothy Martis and Ray [?] on their wedding day, and a wedding of another unidentified couple. There is also an unidentified wedding group portrait with inscription “Woman in back row with glasses on - Mrs Spencer from A M P Sydney, met her on the ship”. Also includes an exterior view of an unidentified wooden church, grave of Alfred Charles Martis, grave of Hira Forsyth ("wife of Samuel Forsyth, died 1939 aged 59 years") and a newspaper photo [1932?] of the olympian Thelma Irion. Thelma Irion nee Kench's parents were Hilda Florence Martis and Sam Kench, making her Judith Clark’s cousin. Quantity: 57 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 Other printed ephemera item(s) newspaper clipping. Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints, one is possibly albumen Processing information: Post-it notes have been removed and the information from them recorded.
Family photographs
Date: 1930-1956
From: Clark, Judith Ann, 1931-2014: Photographs
By: Tesla Denton Studios; Valerie Studios (Wellington, N.Z.); Klix Studio; Leicagraph Studio (Wellington, N.Z.); Capital Photographs
Reference: PAColl-10457-2
Description: Family photographs taken by mainly unidentified photographers between 1930 and 1956. Some with annotations on the reverse. Features wedding portraits of Clark's parents Ivy Ella Martis and Fitzgerald Martin Clark in Wanganui in 1930, Clark as a baby and toddler, many photographs of Clark as a child, and teenager, some in costume, some in a garden, and some in front of a house. Other identified people include Clark's maternal grandmother Harriet Martis, Felicity Martis, and Lola Magee (nee Kench). Some people are unidentified. Also a set of Clark in school uniform and in class photos (1939, [1940?], 1946, 1947, 1948, and [1949?]) some with signatures on the reverse. Many images of Clark and her mother Ivy Clark, including street portraits, both women are often often wearing hats and gloves. Also a photograph of Ivy Clark, holding flowers in a garden (an original black and white print as well as a coloured copy). A note on the reverse of the copy says that the orginal was on Clark's fridge. Notes on the reverse of the original give colouring information. Some images show automobiles and scenery. Photographs from on board the 'Ruahine' [1956?] showing other passengers (some identified on the reverse), a view of the passing 'Rangitata' ship, and the Panama Canal. Also some taken on the island of Curacao. Quantity: 96 b&w original photographic print(s) 2 with hand-colouring. 2 b&w copy photographic print(s). 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints
Photograph album of Clark and friends
Date: [ca 1960s to 1980s]
From: Clark, Judith Ann, 1931-2014: Photographs
Reference: PA1-q-1195
Description: Album of mainly informal photographs taken by unidentified photographers from circa 1960 to 1989. Features Clark and friends, with many images showing people relaxing, socialising, eating, and drinking. Some babies and children are shown. Some images are taken at a wedding, some are at a [conference?] dinner, one is a posed group portrait [possibly an Institue of Registered Music Teachers conference?]. Quantity: 1 album(s) containing 28 , 14 b&w original photographic print(s), and 1 b&w copy photographic print(s). Physical Description: Ringbinder photograph album with plastic green padded cover. 31.5 x 27 cm