Wright, Walter, 1866-1933

Date: 1902

By: Wright, Walter, 1866-1933; Brett Printing and Publishing Company Ltd

Reference: D-017-021-a

Description: Shows four-masted steamship, the "Surrey", filled with soldiers, and flying flags from all masts. A paddle steamer is stationed on her near side, and there are two more at the left of the picture. There are three other steamships further away at the right, and many sailing boats and rowing boats on the water. One rowing boat has a rowing team in rowing outfits, and some near boats contain ladies with parasols. The setting may be Auckland Harbour, with North Head seen in the right background. Supplement to New Zealand graphic, 24 December 1902. Inscriptions: Recto - top left - Supplement to the Christmas number of the New Zealand graphic, December 24th 1902.; Recto - bottom right - W. WRIGHT; Recto - beneath image - [Title] Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph, 367 x 900 mm, on sheet stuck to board, 430 x 958 mm.

Date: 1902

By: Wright, Walter, 1866-1933; Brett Printing and Publishing Company Ltd

Reference: D-017-021

Description: Shows four-masted steamship, the "Surrey", filled with soldiers, and flying flags from all masts. A paddle steamer is stationed on her near side, and there are two more at the left of the picture. There are three other steamships further away at the right, and many sailing boats and rowing boats on the water. One rowing boat has a rowing team in rowing outfits, and some near boats contain ladies with parasols. The setting may be Auckland Harbour, with North Head seen in the right background. Supplement to New Zealand graphic, 24 December 1902. Inscriptions: Recto - top left - Supplement to the Christmas number of the New Zealand graphic, December 24th 1902.; Recto - bottom right - W. WRIGHT; Recto - beneath image - [Title] Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph, 367 x 900 mm, on sheet stuck to board, 430 x 958 mm.

Date: 1908

By: Wright, Walter, 1866-1933; Auckland weekly news (Newspaper)

Reference: A-078-011

Description: View of the Boyd on fire in Whangaroa Harbour with a large number of Maori in canoes in the foreground Probably published in Weekly News Copy of an original oil painting in Auckland Art Gallery. The date 1908 for the publication of this image is suggested by a story on the verso showing Sydney L. Thompson's painting 'A pioneer's story' which was exhibited at the Auckland Society of Arts annual exhibition in 1908 Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph 265 x 380 mm

Date: 1809 - 1968 - 1969

By: Wright, Walter, 1866-1933; Murray-Oliver, Anthony Audrey St. Clair Murray, 1915-1986

Reference: C-087-011

Description: "This reproduction from a painting by Walter Wright, in the Auckland Art Gallery, depicts the scene of Whangaroa Harbour after the massacre of the ship's company". From an oil painting held by Auckland City Art Gallery. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - "The burning of the Boyd" The Boyd massacre took place in August, 1809, almost 160 years ago. This reproduction from a painting by Walter Wright, in the Auckland Art Gallery, depicts the scene on Whangaroa Harbour after the massacre of the ship's company by the Maoris. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, coloured, 353 x 515 mm, on sheet 384 x 557 mm.

Date: 1903

By: New Zealand Graphic and Ladies' Journal; Wright, Walter, 1866-1933

Reference: D-018-004

Description: Shows a Maori regatta on Lake Rotorua Presented with: Christmas no. of the N.Z. Graphic, 21st December, 1903 Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph of oil, 340 x 900 mm

Date: 1914

By: Wright, Walter, 1866-1933; Brett Printing and Publishing Company Ltd; Brett's Christmas Annual (Periodical)

Reference: B-033-023

Description: Shows a Maori village beside a lake, canoes on shore. Possibly a Rotorua scene. Supplement to Brett's Christmas annual, 1914. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph 330 x 457 mm, on sheet 410 x 510 mm

Date: 1935-1954

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

Reference: E-929-F-002

Description: Includes: New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts catalogues: 1937, 1938, 1938 (Autumn), 1947, 1954 (Autumn) Canterbury Society of Arts annual exhibition catalogues 1939, 1941, 1952 Also includes the following books: Official guide to the New Zealand Centennial Exhibition. 1939. New Zealand artists in uniform : exhibition of paintings and drawings. Wellington AEWS, 1944. Contemporary British prints and drawings selected from the Wakefield Collection, British Council. London, 1948? (2 copies) Canadian water colours. Whitcombe & Tombs, 1948. Frances Hodgkins and her circle : an exhibition arranged by the Auckland City Art Gallery on the occasion of the Auckland Festival of the Arts 1954. The Rex Nan Kivell collection of early New Zealand pictures. Wellington, 1954. Canterbury centennial celebrations : official souvenir programme. 1950. Lyttelton, 16th December 1950 : centennial day souvenir. 1950. National Art Gallery, Wellington New Zealand. Landscape art c. 1600-1850; paintings and drawings in the collection of the National Art Gallery [ca 1950]. Frances Hodgkins, by Myfanwy Evans. (Penguin Modern painters). Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1948. Frank and Walter Wright : an exhibition held at the Auckland City Art Gallery, December 18th to February 22nd, 1954-55. National Art Gallery and Dominion Museum, New Zealand. Souvenir catalogue of pictures and works of art for opening exhibition August, 1936. Messrs Gummer & Ford, architects. Dominion Museum, National Art Gallery and Carillon Campanile proposed to be erected on Mount Cook, Wellington. [1926-1930] National Art Gallery Wellington. Centennial exhibition of international and New Zealand art. Opened 10 November 1939. New Zealand art; a centennial exhibition. National centennial exhibition of New Zealand art. Catalogue. New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs. 1940. New Zealand centennial 1840-1940. Published by the New Zealand Government Department of Tourist and Publicity. Year book / Hawke's Bay and East Coast Art Society for 1952; Canterbury Society of Arts catalogues for 1938, 1941, 1942, 1949 and 1952 from Mr Roberts' donation have been shelved in the sequence in the Serials Collection, Alexander Turnbull Library. Quantity: 16 monographs, 3 CSA and 5 NZAFA catalogues. Physical Description: Booklets and monographs sizes varying. Provenance: Donated by Mr Rex Roberts in 2003.

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.

Date: [between 1945-1988]

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

By: Wright, Walter, 1866-1933

Reference: WA-10075-G

Description: Copy negative taken by Whites Aviation Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative, 4.75 x 6.5 inches

Date: 1914 - 1920

By: Auckland weekly news (Newspaper); Wright, Walter, 1866-1933; New Zealand herald (Newspaper)

Reference: B-155-016

Description: Shows a stretch of river, with a group of Maori women and children on the near bank at the right. They are watching a single figure paddling past in a waka. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - N.Z. Herald Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour photolithograph, on sheet 311 x 456 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Anah Dunsheath, 9 July 2001.

Date: 1871 - 1900 - 1929

By: Wright, Walter, 1866-1933

Reference: B-187-020

Description: Shows the two-masted topsail schooner anchored at low tide in St George's Bay, Auckland. Three men inspect the boat's hull at its front, and another can be seen walking towards it. A dinghy is attached by a rope to its stern Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - W Wright [in brushpoint]; Verso - centre - Topsail schooner "Clio" in St George's Bay Auckland [originally in pencil, enhanced in biro] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper, 235 x 355 mm (sight)