Roberts, Rex, fl 1970-1990s (collector) :[Collection of art exhibition catalogues, 1935-1954].

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.