Places

Date: 1959 - 1960

By: King, Marcus, 1891-1983; New Zealand. Tourism Department

Reference: Eph-D-TOURISM-1960-01

Description: Shows airborne skier in right profile, above foreground slope. In right distance is the Ruapehu skifield and Mount Ngauruhoe steaming in the background. Previously thought to be dated in the 1930s. Revised date based on "Selling the dream; the art of early New Zealand tourism" eds Peter Alsop, Gary Stewart, Dave Bamford (2012); it is reproduced on page 282, with date suggested on page 392. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - MARCUS KING Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Screen print, 765 x 510 mm.

Date: 1950 - 1959

By: King, Marcus, 1891-1983

Reference: Eph-D-TOURISM-1950s-03

Description: Shows drover on horseback at right foreground, with sheepdog in left foreground and sheep in middle distance. In distance is a high country valley, pylons and snowy peaks. Previously thought to be dated in the 1930s; revised owing to information in "Selling the dream; the art of early New Zealand tourism" eds Peter Alsop, Gary Stewart, Dave Bamford (2012), where it is shown on page 368, with date given on page 402. Other Titles - Poster Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - MARCUS KING Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Relief print, coloured 765 x 510 mm.

Date: 1950

By: King, Marcus, 1891-1983

Reference: Eph-E-TOURISM-1950-02

Description: Shows three people in a small boat gliding on a still lake, which reflects the bush and mountains behind. There is a toetoe bush in the right foreground. Previously thought to be dated in the 1930s; revised owing to information in "Selling the dream; the art of early New Zealand tourism" eds Peter Alsop, Gary Stewart, Dave Bamford (2012), where it is shown on page 145, with date given on page 397. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - MARCUS KING Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Screenprint, 1010 x 627 mm.

Date: 1957 - 1959

By: King, Marcus, 1891-1983; Pictorial Publications Ltd

Reference: Eph-E-TOURISM-Waitomo-1959-01

Description: Shows the dark interior of Waitomo Caves, with the glow of many glowworms. At lower right passengers sit in a full dinghy, and a shadowy figure at the bow points out the glowworms. Dated from a photograph taken inside Wellington airport cafeteria, included in "Wellington Airport : official souvenir brochure, October 1959". This photograph is also reproduced in "Selling the dream; the art of early New Zealand tourism" eds Peter Alsop, Gary Stewart, Dave Bamford (2012), page 23. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Screenprint, canvas pattern, on sheet, 940 x 640 mm.

Date: 1950

By: King, Marcus, 1891-1983

Reference: Eph-E-TOURISM-1950-01

Description: Shows drover on horseback at right foreground, with sheepdog on riverbank behind him. He follows a herd of Hereford cattle across a river, with bush, hills and snowcapped peaks behind. Previously thought to be dated in the 1930s; revised owing to information in "Selling the dream; the art of early New Zealand tourism" eds Peter Alsop, Gary Stewart, Dave Bamford (2012), where it is shown on page 370-371, with date given on page 402. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - MARCUS KING Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Screenprint, 632 x 1012 mm.

Date: 1955 - 1960

By: King, Marcus, 1891-1983

Reference: Eph-E-TOURISM-1950s-05

Description: Poster promoting New Zealand as a tourist destination shows a Maori woman in traditional dress raising her arm beside a geyser playing at full height. Peter Alsop's 'Selling the dream' (2013) shows this image on page 235, and on page 399, gives its publisher as the Tourist Department, for whom King was working. This image is based on a 1950s photograph by photographer Ronald D Woolf; see photographic poster of the same subject at Eph-D-TOURISM-1960s-01. The Maori woman is identified as Guide Rangi, on a photograph retrieved 18 November 2015 from http://tinyurl.com/owmdhkp. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Screen print, 1010 x 635 mm.

Date: 1955

By: King, Marcus, 1891-1983

Reference: Eph-E-TOURISM-1955-02

Description: Shows red blooms on a sprig of rata, with a background of the top of the Franz Josef Glacier in Westland. Dated from "Selling the dream; the art of early New Zealand tourism" eds Peter Alsop, Gary Stewart, Dave Bamford (2012), where it is reproduced on page 160, with suggested date on page 397. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - MARCUS KING Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Screenprint, 1012 x 635 mm.