The Wanganui Society had its beginnings in 1901 and became a corporate body in 1919. First annual exhibition was opened on 20 November 1901. The Society begun its permanent collection in 1901/2 by purchasing, for £13, Mr C. F. Goldie's picture 'Of Making Many Books there is No End'. The first issue of a lively newsletter was published in 1962.
Wanganui Arts and Crafts Society
Wanganui Society of Arts and Crafts
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Wanganui Society of Arts and Crafts :Wanganui Society of Arts & Crafts Exhibition, Sarg...
Date: 1923
By: Wanganui Arts and Crafts Society; Bissett, Gordon, active 1923
Reference: ArtEph-1923-W-01
Description: Exhibition catalogue lists 398 items, including paintings and drawings, prints, photographs, crafts and needlework. There is an index of artists on pages 14-15. Other Titles - Sarjeant Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 15 pages, 212 x 136 mm.
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Correspondence relating to art, photography and exhibitions
Date: 1959-1963
From: Lee-Johnson, Eric, 1908-1993 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-5437-142
Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Holographs, mss, typescripts and printed matter
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Roberts, Rex, fl 1970-1990s (collector) :[Collection of art exhibition catalogues, 1955...
Date: 1935 - 1954
From: Roberts, Rex, fl 1970-1990s (collector) :[Collection of art exhibition and dealers' catalogues, 1914-1999].
By: Auckland City Art Gallery; Hocken Library; Sarjeant Gallery; Waikato Society of Arts; Wanganui Arts and Crafts Society
Reference: E-929-F-003
Description: Includes: New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts catalogues: 1958-1962; Autumn 1957-1958, 1960-1963; Sculpture pottery and graphic art 1962-1963. Canterbury Society of Arts annual exhibition catalogue 1962 Also includes the following books: Architectural Centre Gallery Wellington. A catalogue of pictures and prints from the Alexander Turnbull Library. 25 June to 6 July 1956. Auckland City Art Gallery. Colonial Auckland. 1959. [Catalogue] Auckland City Art Gallery. A colonial view; paintings of early New Zealand. 1958. [Catalogue]. Auckland City Art Gallery. Early identities. 19 December 1955 - 20 January 1956. Auckland City Art Gallery. Early watercolours of New Zealand. September 1963. Auckland City Art Gallery. Eight New Zealand painters. Nov-Dec 1957 (Rita Angus, Ivy G Fife, John Holmwood, Milan Mrkusich, Michael Nicholson, W A Sutton, Sydney L Thompson, Dennis K Turner) Auckland City Art Gallery. Frances Hodgkins paintings and drawings. 1959 [Catalogue]. Auckland City Art Gallery. J C Hoyte. June-July 1957. [Catalogue] Auckland City Art Gallery. J C Richmond. 1957 [Catalogue] Auckland City Art Gallery. James Preston. 1959 [Catalogue] Auckland City Art Gallery. John Kinder. 1958 [Catalogue] Auckland City Art Gallery. New Zealand painting. 1956 [Catalogue] Auckland City Art Gallery. Petrus van der Velden. 1959-60 [Catalogue] Auckland City Art Gallery. Six New Zealand expatriates: Grace Joel, Rhona Haszard, Frances Hodgkins, Francis McCracken, Raymond McIntyre, Owen Merton. April 1962. [Catalogue] Auckland City Art Gallery. The wars in New Zealand. 1961. [Catalogue] Auckland Star Postprimary art exhibition. 1963. Catalogue. Contemporary Soviet art; an exhibition of contemporary paintings, sculpture, drawings and graphic art, arranged by the Legation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics for exhibition in New Zealand. 1957. [Catalogu] Oil paintings by William Hodges, R.A. exhibited in New Zealand by courtesy of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, June-September 1959. (Alexander Turnbull Library Bulletin no 15). Robert McDougall Art Gallery. The art of Petrus van der Velden. 11 November - 10 December 1963. [Catalogue] University of Otago. Hocken Library art exhibition, Festival Week, Dunedin, 1959. [Catalogue] Waikato Society of Arts. A religious art competition sponsored by Waikato Breweries Limited, Hamilton. October 1958. [Catalogue] Wairarapa Art Exhibition, Masterton September 1962. [Catalogue] Wanganui Arts and Crafts Society. Annual exhibition, Sarjeant Gallery. 1956 [Catalogue] Wanganui City Council. Sarjeant Gallery; catalogue of pictures and works of art. 1959. Wellington Art Club. 70 colourful years; a history of the Wellington Art Club by members of the club. [1962]. Canterbury Society of Arts catalogues for 1855, 1962 and 1963 from Mr Roberts' donation have been shelved in the sequence in the Serials Collection, Alexander Turnbull Library. Quantity: 24 monographs, 1 CSA and 14 NZAFA catalogues. Physical Description: Booklets and monographs sizes varying. Provenance: Donated by Mr Rex Roberts in 2003.