Moran, Joseph Bruno, 1874-1952

Date: 1946

By: Moran, Joseph Bruno, 1874-1952; Wilson & Horton (Firm)

Reference: Eph-B-MORAN-02

Description: Illuminated address welcomes a serviceman or servicewoman home, and thanks and congratulates him/her for war service. The decorative heraldic border lists the theatre of war down the right side: Greece, Crete, Alamein, Tunisia, Italy and the Pacific, and the badge emblems of the New Zealand Army, Air Force, Navy, Nurses, and other services are shown down the left side. There is a small inset circular view of sailing boats on Onehunga Harbour, at top right. The New Zealand coat of arms is in the centre of the lower edge. The address is signed by the Mayor, Mr A Garside. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph with gilt, 340 x 248 mm. Provenance: Donated by Mrs K M Wildgoose in about 1977.

Date: 1930 - 1949

By: Moran, Joseph Bruno, 1874-1952

Reference: Eph-B-MORAN-03

Description: Shows farming scene with Mount Cook in right background, sheep and cows grazing at left, horses harvesting grain at right. New Zealand crest at centre. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph 208 x 305 mm. Provenance: Donated by Mrs K M Wildgoose in about 1977.

Date: 1919

By: Moran, Joseph Bruno, 1874-1952; Brett Printing and Publishing Company Ltd

Reference: Eph-B-MORAN-01

Description: Certificate issued at the time of the peace celebrations at the end of the First World War, shows the New Zealand coat of arms at top centre, flanked by eight flags (including the Union Jack, but not the New Zealand or Australian ones). A sailor and a soldier stand at either side of the central circular panel of text which has space for the recipient's name ot be filled in. Below is an inset oval photographic print of the Hikurangi lime rocks at Waro. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph on card, 303 x 237 mm. Provenance: Donated by Mrs K M Wildgoose in about 1977.

Date: 1920 - 1935

By: Moran, Joseph Bruno, 1874-1952

Reference: Eph-D-MORAN-1920s-06

Description: Shows a woman in a red dress with a skirt of tiered frills, hanging white sheets and clothing on a clothesline with yellow pegs. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph, 700 x 518 mm. Provenance: Donated by Mrs K M Wildgoose in about 1977.

Date: 1919 - 1925

By: Moran, Joseph Bruno, 1874-1952; Brett Printing and Publishing Company Ltd

Reference: Eph-C-MORAN-1920s-03

Description: Shows the text of a speech by Mr W F Rogers-Rowland, on behalf of the New Zealand National War Memorial Chapel Scheme. The speech emphasises the ties with Britain but points out New Zealand's own traditions. The target amount to raise for the chapel was one hundred thousand pounds, with the Wellington Committee launching a subscription list for a Million Half-Crown Fund. A Gothic chapel was envisaged. The border shows a botanical design with the names of the battlefields on ribbon: Samoa, Gallipoli, Suez, Messines, Passchendaele, Armentieres, Le Quesnoy, Palestine. The four corners show the shields of England, Ireland and Scotland, and the top centre shows the lion and unicorn. New Zealand's coat of arms is at bottom centre. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Design & litho J Moran Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Colour lithograph, 385 x 255 mm. Provenance: Donated by Mrs K M Wildgoose in about 1977.

Date: 1931 - 1935

By: Moran, Joseph Bruno, 1874-1952; New Zealand Fruitgrowers Federation; New Zealand herald (Newspaper)

Reference: Eph-E-MORAN-1930s-01

Description: Shows a row of apples. From right to left these are labelled in the bottom border, as: Granny Smith, Rome Beauty, Delicious, Dunn's, Jonathan, Coxz's Orange, Ballarat, Gravenstein, Dougherty, and Sturmer. Other Titles - Poster Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - N.Z. Herald, Auck. The Dominion Mark label was used 1931-1935 Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, coloured, 180 x 1010 mm. Provenance: Donated by Mrs K M Wildgoose in about 1977.

Date: 1920 - 1921

By: Moran, Joseph Bruno, 1874-1952

Reference: Eph-B-MORAN-04

Description: Shows farming scene with Mount Cook in right background, sheep and cows grazing at left, horses harvesting grain at right. New Zealand crest with carved Maori head at centre. This is a preliminary sketch for a book cover for "New Zealand; the country, its people and resources" (Brett Printing and Publishing Company, 1921) Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing, 200 x 295 mm.

Date: 1920 - 1935

By: Moran, Joseph Bruno, 1874-1952

Reference: Eph-D-MORAN-1920s-05

Description: Preliminary painting for an advertising poster shows a European man in a pith helmet and white suit gazing into the eyes of a smiling Polynesian woman in a grass skirt. They stand on a beach between palm trees. The woman is peeling a banana, and the man is holding a cigar which has inadvertently caught light to the woman's grass skirt. At the left, a crab has climbed partway up a palm tree trunk and is about to take a folded copy of the Auckland Star from the man's back pocket. The word "Unfinished" appears at lower right, indicating that the painting was not completed. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Gouache painting on brown paper, 573 x 445 mm. Provenance: Donated by Mrs K M Wildgoose in about 1977.

Date: 1931 - 1935

By: Moran, Joseph Bruno, 1874-1952; New Zealand Fruitgrowers Federation; New Zealand herald (Newspaper)

Reference: Eph-C-THORP-01

Description: Shows two pears and arrangement of text, and Dominion Mark logo at top right. Artist assumed to be Joseph Bruno Moran, on the basis of style; see similar work for the Dominion Mark Company in the Moran Collection. The Dominion Mark label was in use 1931-1935, launched in December 1931 (See New Zealand Herald, 5 December 1931, page 13), However it had been introduced by marketers, and became very unpopular with growers to whom it was a financial burden (See criticism in North Canterbury Gazette, 6 September 1935, page 5). It was finally discontinued in 1935. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - N.Z. Herald, Auck. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph 179 x 484 mm.

Date: 1920 - 1935

By: Palmer, W, active 1920s?; Palmer, Charles, 1841?-1928; Moran, Joseph Bruno, 1874-1952

Reference: Eph-C-MORAN-1900s-01

Description: Original watercolour artwork for border of multi-coloured leaf design with a vignette of Maori mother and baby at lower right. The scenic vignettes show Auckland Harbour and Ohinemutu at Rotorua. Previously attributed to Joseph Moran. Part of the Moran Collection, but likely to be by another artist; signed W Palmer in pencil at lower right. Note on verso says: "Design by C Palmer" Inscriptions: Verso - bottom right - Design by C Palmer Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on vellum, 406 x 304 mm.

Date: 1931 - 1935

By: Moran, Joseph Bruno, 1874-1952; New Zealand Fruitgrowers Federation; Jonson, Ian, active 2003

Reference: Eph-C-FRUIT-1930s-02

Description: Shows a whole grapefruit on left, and a grapefruit half on the right. Artist may be Joseph Bruno Moran, on the basis of style; see similar work for the Dominion Mark Company in the Moran Collection. The Dominion Mark scheme was in operation 1931-1935. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph 179 x 484 mm.

Date: 1920 - 1930

By: Moran, Joseph Bruno, 1874-1952

Reference: Eph-A-MORAN-07

Description: Shows arrangement of fruit and text. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 210 x 171 mm. Provenance: Donated by Mrs K M Wildgoose in about 1977.

Date: 1931 - 1935

By: Moran, Joseph Bruno, 1874-1952; New Zealand Fruitgrowers Federation; New Zealand herald (Newspaper)

Reference: Eph-E-MORAN-02

Description: Shows two advertisements on the one strip. On the left is a panel for Jonathan apples, showing one apple plus text and Dominion mark logo. On the right are two Rome Beauty apples, with text and logo. The Dominion Mark label was in use 1931-1935. Other Titles - Poster Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - N.Z. Herald, Auck. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, coloured, 180 x 1010 mm.

Date: 1920 - 1935

By: Moran, Joseph Bruno, 1874-1952

Reference: Eph-D-MORAN-1920s-01

Description: Shows woman fashionably dress in 1920s style, holding small boy standing on her knee. He is feeding her grapes. In the foreground, a large bowl of fruit stands on a table. Commissioned as one of a series of posters for display in greengrocers' shops, in about the 1930s. (See neg. no. 37528 1/2 in Pictorial Reference Section - file print filed under 725. Shops. Greengrocers). May be one of the posters mentioned in the "Dominion Mark fruit book" of 1934, inside back cover (NZ&P Box 641.64 DOM 1934). Other Titles - Poster Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, coloured 750 x 495 mm. Provenance: Donated by Mrs K M Wildgoose in about 1977.

Date: 1920 - 1935

By: Moran, Joseph Bruno, 1874-1952

Reference: Eph-D-MORAN-1920s-04

Description: Shows small female figure holding up tray with large glass of lemonade. At top a bunch of five lemons on the branch of a tree hang down. The bottom half contains elements of Art deco design. Exhibited in 'To market, to market' Exhibition of advertising and commercial ephemera from the Printed Ephemera Collection, Alexander Turnbull Library. First Floor foyer, National Library of New Zealand, 5 August - 16 September 1997. Commissioned as one of a series of posters for display in greengrocers' shops, in about the 1920s or 1930s. (See neg. no. 37528 1/2 in Pictorial Reference Section - file print filed under 725. Shops. Greengrocers). May be one of the posters mentioned in the "Dominion Mark fruit book" of 1934, inside back cover (NZ&P Box 641.64 DOM 1934). Other Titles - Poster Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, coloured 760 x 505 mm.

Date: 1931 - 1935

By: Moran, Joseph Bruno, 1874-1952; New Zealand Fruitgrowers Federation; New Zealand herald (Newspaper)

Reference: Eph-C-THORP-02

Description: Shows apple with wedge cut out of it and knife beside it, with arrangement of text and Dominion Mark logo at left. Artist assumed to be Joseph Bruno Moran, on the basis of style; see similar work for the Dominion Mark Company in the Moran Collection. The Dominion Mark label was in use 1931-1935. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - N.Z. Herald, Auck. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph 179 x 484 mm.

Date: 1932

By: Moran, Joseph Bruno, 1874-1952; New Zealand herald (Newspaper)

Reference: Eph-A-MORAN-09

Description: Shows the coat of arms of the Grand Lodge. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s) on front of folded card.. Physical Description: Lithograph 232 x 157 mm. Provenance: Donated by Mrs K M Wildgoose in about 1977.

Date: 1920 - 1935

By: Moran, Joseph Bruno, 1874-1952

Reference: Eph-C-MORAN-1920s-02

Description: Original watercolour artwork for border of Maori design of the appearance of carved wooden figures and motifs, and a Maori woman standing in traditional costume at lower right. The scenic vignettes show Rotora, Waitakerei Falls, Waikato River near Cambridge, Kauri, Ngaruahoe [Ngauruhoe]. Part of the Moran Collection, but may be by another artist; see Eph-C-MORAN-1920s-06 which is signed W Palmer in pencil at lower right. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 470 x 335 mm. Provenance: Donated by Mrs K M Wildgoose in about 1977.

Date: 1931 - 1935

By: Moran, Joseph Bruno, 1874-1952

Reference: Eph-F-MORAN-01

Description: Shows apples, pear, peach, apricot and plums, with Dominion Mark logo. Probably executed in the 1930s, as it may be one of the posters mentioned in the "Dominion Mark fruit book" of 1934, inside back cover. (NZ&P Box 641.64 DOM 1934). Other Titles - Poster Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - N. Z. HERALD, AUCK. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Poster paint on paper stuck to board, 520 x 382 mm.

Date: 1931 - 1935

By: Moran, Joseph Bruno, 1874-1952; New Zealand Fruitgrowers Federation; New Zealand herald (Newspaper); Jonson, Ian, active 2003

Reference: Eph-C-FRUIT-1930s-01

Description: Shows two pears and arrangement of text, and Dominion Mark logo at top right. Artist assumed to be Joseph Bruno Moran, on the basis of style; see similar work for the Dominion Mark Company in the Moran Collection. The Dominion Mark label was in use 1931-1935. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - N.Z. Herald, Auck. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph 179 x 484 mm.