Wisdom

Date: [1 July 2000]

From: Slane, Christopher, 1957-: [Original cartoons by Chris Slane featured in a retrospective exhibition at Alta Gallery, Wellington, 8-22 October 2016.]

Reference: A-474-045

Description: Don McKinnon is shown as a Gandhi-style guru, wearing a cloth garment and sitting cross-legged on the ground. Surrounding him are 'pearls of wisdom': The journey of a thousand miles begins with a cocktail in the Koru Lounge; The darkest hour is any time in Africa; Bullshit happens; If something goes without saying, don't let it; Pride comes before a New Zealand honour; When in doubt - do nothing. When in certainty - do nothing; He who bends with the wind should not eat so many canapés. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - SLANE [in ink] Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and ink on textured card, 275 x 255 mm

Date: 1979 - 1980

By: Reach Out (Auckland, N.Z.)

Reference: Eph-D-RELIGION-Therismos-1980-02

Description: Photographic black and white poster showing a rose bud partially open. At lower left is the logo of Therismos (lit. Greek for "Harvest"), a sheaf of grain. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) on poster.. Physical Description: Photolithograph, 605 x 440 mm. Provenance: Acquired in 1980.

Date: 2005

By: New Holland Publishers (N.Z.)

Reference: Eph-F-PSYCH-2005-01

Description: Each of forty cards shows a photograph by Terry Winn on the front (scenic landscape or nature study), and each has a different insightful quotation by a well-known writer on the back. The theme of the quotations is tranquillity. Quantity: 1 container(s). Physical Description: Cardboard box holding 40 cards, each 95 x 95 mm. Provenance: Acquired under legal deposit in 2006.

Date: 2007

From: Slane, Christopher, 1957-: Digital cartoons published in the Listener, New Zealand Herald, or New Zealand Farmers' Weekly

Reference: DCDL-0003542

Description: The cartoon shows three scenes, each of which illustrates one of the notions, 'healthy', 'wealthy', and 'wise'. The first shows a queue outside a P.H.O. (Primary Health Organisation) Medical Centre, illustrating 'healthy; the second shows Don Brash, the ex-leader of the National Party and John Banks, ex MP and Auckland mayor and again aspiring to the mayoralty, John Banks, smiling happily as they consider their wealth; and the third shows a child outside an Auckland kindergarten thinking, when he sees the fees, that he needs to get a job first. The images refer first to the launch of Public Health Organisations which are an attempt to improve primary health care, second to the setting up of a boutique funds management company by Don Brash, John Banks, aspiring Auckland mayoral candidate and millionaire businessman Peter Huljich, and the third to the partial funding of pre-school education, something that not all pre-schools are buying into. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 1908 - 1926

By: Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants of New Zealand; Christchurch Press Company Ltd

Reference: Eph-D-RAIL-1910-01

Description: A brightly-coloured certificate showing at the top three seated female allegorical figures of Wisdom, Justice and Truth. The whole certificate is bordered in an architectural arch of green marble background with gold highlights, and there are inset scenes of steam trains, railway workshops, a stationmaster, signalman and clerks. In the centre is the logo of a handshake and the motto "All men are brothers". M J Mack who has signed the certificate as general secretary, did not take up this position until 1908 and continued in it until 1926. Therefore, although the poster records Chambers' membership beginning in 1889, the certificate must date sometime in the period 1908-1926. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Coloured lithograph, 545 x 440 mm.

Date: 2010

From: Hawkey, Allan Charles, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Waikato Times].

Reference: DCDL-0013413

Description: The cartoon shows two men fishing from a boat. One of them has hooked a huge shark. Thinking that the line is merely snagged, his companion, unaware of the shark, offers to go down and wriggle the line free. Text reads 'Larry's first poor quality decision of 2010. Refers to the new year 2010 and resolutions. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2007

From: Fletcher, David, 1952- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0002881

Description: 'The Politician' cartoon strip. A man comes into the politician's office wanting to have a word with the wise. The politician is not there and his secretary tells the man that if he wants wisdom he is not only in the wrong room he is in the wrong building. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2006

From: Tremain, Garrick, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Otago Daily Times]

Reference: DCDL-0001242

Description: There are six little almost wordless scenes showing a newspaper vendor standing beside his news stand on the front of which are the words 'Govt shows wisdom'. A businessman has bought a newspaper and he is shown scene by scene discarding page after page as he tries to find a report that describes government wisdom. The vendor looks inscrutable until he is able to shout 'April fool' when the business man eventually gives up his search. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2006

From: Scott, Thomas, 1947- :[Digital cartoons published in the Dominion Post]

Reference: DCDL-0000698

Description: The scene shows the White House in Washington. Voices are heard through the windows. The President, George Bush, has just heard that Hamas has won the Palestinian election and wonders which dang fool encouraged democracy in the Middle East. He is told that it was his own idea. This is ironically true. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Fletcher, David, 1952- :Digital cartoons

By: Dominion post (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0024212

Description: The Politician explains that though his foresight is lacking, his hindsight ins 100 per cent accurate. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

From: Tremain, Garrick, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Otago Daily Times]

Reference: DCDL-0025374

Description: Two boys walk past a serious of newspaper headline boards that reference Syria, Hamas, Egypt, Kurds, Gaza and Iran. Dialogue continues: "That's all a load of rubbish!!" and when questioned why he says that, the boy replies "As many as 3 wise men in the East? Get real!!" Refers to ongoing conflicts in the Middle East, pointing to the discrepancy between the politically volatile situation and the biblical story of the three wise men or magi. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).