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[Rykers, Leslie Bertram Archibald], 1897-1976 :"Good bye, Mother, goodbye Dad", and you...
Date: 1925 - 1935
From: Rykers, Leslie Bertram Archibald, 1897-1976 :[Original art works for, and print of, advertisements, greeting cards, and illustrations for Auckland Star and Brett's Christmas annuals, mostly 1920s-1930s. Artwork by Neville L and Trevor Rykers, 1940s and 1950s].
Reference: B-185-048
Description: Page layout for an advertisement for Auckland Savings Bank, shows a young man in a suit hugging his mother as he is about to board a boat. The family terrier jumps up to farewell him, beside his suitcase on the wharf. The cover of an Auckland Savings Bank deposit book is shown at lower right. At top right there are lines standing in for rows of small print. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Collaged photolithographs, ink and pencil, on card 412 x 283 mm.
[Rykers, Leslie Bertram Archibald], 1897-1976 :Brett's Christmas number, New Zealand 1930.
Date: 1930
From: Rykers, Leslie Bertram Archibald, 1897-1976 :[Original art works for, and print of, advertisements, greeting cards, and illustrations for Auckland Star and Brett's Christmas annuals, mostly 1920s-1930s. Artwork by Neville L and Trevor Rykers, 1940s and 1950s].
Reference: B-185-010
Description: Design drawing for the cover of Brett's Christmas number for 1930 shows a scene in the South Island high country, with bush-covered hills, glimpse of a mountain river, and snow-capped peaks. In the left foreground is a group of Maori, one of whom is sitting on the ground peeling one of a pile of potatoes. There is a metal container and a large kete beside her. Another woman sits beside her, and another (a mother with her baby on her back) stands beside them. Beyond is a Maori man with a staff, and a whare with two figures sitting in front of it. There is a tall straight-trunked tree in the right foreground. The shape of the snowy range and landscape is taken from a photograph of Mount Cook and the Fox Glacier, by George Chance (photo also reproduced in Brett's Christmas number 1931, page 9) Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Gouache on board, 420 x 305 mm.
[Rykers, Leslie Bertram Archibald], 1897-1976 :Brett's Christmas number, 1931. 2/-
Date: 1931
From: Rykers, Leslie Bertram Archibald, 1897-1976 :[Original art works for, and print of, advertisements, greeting cards, and illustrations for Auckland Star and Brett's Christmas annuals, mostly 1920s-1930s. Artwork by Neville L and Trevor Rykers, 1940s and 1950s].
Reference: B-185-011
Description: Design drawing for the cover of Brett's Christmas number for 1931 shows a scene on a lake, with two Maori canoes engaged in a race in which they "hurdle" the canoe over a wooden pole or crossbar set up in the water a little above water level. Each end of the bar is mounted on the V-shape between two upright poles. There is a Maori whare is the right middle distance on the shore of the lake, and hills in the distance. The foreground of this scene is based on, but in mirror image, Walter Wright's "Maori canoe race, Lake Rotorua", but the scale of the lake is smaller. Wright's work was made into a print in 1903. The foreground of this scene is based on, but in mirror image, Walter Wright's "Maori canoe race, Lake Rotorua", but the scale of the lake is smaller. Wright's work was made into a print in 1903, and issued with the Christmas number of the "New Zealand graphic". Other Titles - Two shillings Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - L. Rykers Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Gouache on board, 470 x 350 mm.