Arts and crafts movement

Date: 1925 - 1927

By: Nash, Walter (Sir), 1882-1968

Reference: Eph-A-FURNITURE-1926-01

Description: Includes illustrations and prices of dining suites, lounge suites, bedroom suites, bedding, seagrass furniture, kitchen safes, hatstands, writing desks, carpets, kitchen hardware, blinds and curtaining. Inscriptions: Album page - centre - (Back page): Printed by The Otago Daily Times and Witness Newspapers Co., Ltd, Dunedin, NZ Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Catalogue of [120] pages, 135 x 220 mm. Provenance: Formerly part of the Walter Nash papers, acquired in the late 1980s.

Date: 1906 - 1909

From: [Architectural plans collected by Bulleyment Fortune architects. 1890-1900s]

By: Crichton & McKay (Firm)

Reference: Plans-93-0272/0274

Description: Includes ground plan, upstairs plan, elevations and sections, details of beaten copper panels, decoration on architrave, leaded glass panels, fireplace decoration. The style of decoration is Arts and Crafts. The architects appear to have mistakenly changed the client's middle initial. Other sources (including his own signature) give his middle initial as H, not E Other Titles - C. H. Dickerson The decorative copper panels shown here were not reproduced exactly in the final execution - see three images in album at PA1-f-29, and other photographs at PAColl-2424, where the panels in the hall feature owls, a Scottish motif in the Arts & Crafts movement. The house "Brentwood" was demolished in about 1979 and the panels sold at Dunbar Sloane's to Malcolm Sheffield who installed them in his Oriental Bay property in the 1990s. Quantity: 3 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour, sizes varying

Date: 1921

From: Gooch, Mitchell and MacDiarmid Ltd :[Architectural plans. 1906-1995].

By: Atkins, Bacon & Mitchell (Firm)

Reference: Plans-2002-058-064-015/017

Description: Includes floor plans, sections and elevations, details of entrance porch and balcony. Quantity: 3 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink drawings on waxed linen paper, 520 x 735 mm.

Date: 1890-1905

From: In the Light of the Past :Photographs of New Zealand stained glass in houses and public buildings

By: Fraser, Robert Henry, 1869-1947

Reference: PA12-1433

Description: Domestic decorative stained glass windows in late 19th century and early 20th century styles. There are spectacular windows in a renaisance style by Robert H Fraser from a house at 384 Highgate, Dunedin. Other windows have flat floral or geometric patterns in unpainted coloured glass. There is a set of windows in the British arts and craft style consisting of clear panes into which have been set circular and hexagonal sections in bright rich colours depicting mediaeval scenes. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: 1905 - 1915

By: University of Waikato. Library

Reference: Eph-B-GLASS-1910-01

Description: Includes illustrations of stained glass window designs, numbered 15 to 54. Quantity: 1 sales catalogue.. Physical Description: Chromolithographs and letterpress in catalogue of 12 pages, each 257 x 192 mm.

Date: 25 Mar 1977-3 Jul 1981

From: Mason, Helen Wilmot, 1915-2014: Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-11191-47

Description: Inward correspondence from son Andrew Mason. Written mainly from Wellington, but also London. Subjects include overseas travel, employment at the Listener, and visits to Mason at her Tokomaru Bay home. Contains draft book review of 'Craft New Zealand: the art of the craftsman' by Andrew (for the Listener), with annotations by Helen Mason. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss, typescripts

Date: 10 May 1996-11 Oct 2008

From: Mason, Helen Wilmot, 1915-2014: Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-11191-48

Description: Letters from painter Sue Skerman, including postcards and greeting cards featuring her work. Subjects include art projects and holidays (includes correspondence from South Africa and Australia). Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss, printed matter

Date: 20 May 2000- 7 Oct 2011

From: Mason, Helen Wilmot, 1915-2014: Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-11191-43

Description: Chiefly inward correspondence from painter John Hovell. Includes newspaper clippings, correspondence from Solomon Islands mission, and material relating to exhibitions and events (including photocopies of art works). Also includes some inward and outward correspondence with Julia Stuart relating to depositing personal correspondence in archives and the 'The koru and kowhaiwhai' exhibition held at Pataka Gallery in 2002. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss, typescript, printed matter

Date: 1990 - 1992

From: Hill, Perry Martin, 1926-2005 :[Architectural plans. 1960-1990s]

Reference: Plans-2007-030-0250/0257

Description: Includes floor plans and plans of details of architraves, skirting, jambs, trim, cornices, etc. The buildings included are: 0250-0251: 105 Bell Street Wanganui 0252: 110 Harrison Street. Verandah bracket 0253: 29 Hatrick Street West. Eastern porch bracket 0254: Purnell & Hatrick Street East, Wanganui. 0255: 41A Heads Road Wanganui. Verandah bracket 0256-0257: 25A Heads Road Wanganui. Verandah bracket and elevation Quantity: 8 plan(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawings on tracing paper, sizes varying

Date: 28 Dec 1996-7 Jul 2006

From: Mason, Helen Wilmot, 1915-2014: Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-11191-51

Description: Chiefly consists of newspaper clippings relating to people involved in New Zealand arts and crafts, exhibitions, and Waipukurau local news. Also contains a small amount of inward correspondence, illustrations of Maori rock art, biographical notes on Mason, and a typescript of the second instalment of her history of the New Zealand pottery movement 'As I saw it'. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss, printed matter, typescript

Date: 8 Apr 1984-Jan 2007

From: Mason, Helen Wilmot, 1915-2014: Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-11191-35

Description: Contains chiefly one-off inward correspondence papers from a broad range of people, subjects mainly relate to arts and culture, but some person letters also. Formats include postcards and Christmas cards and correspondence is written from mainly New Zealand, but also Taiwan, France, and Japan. Outward correspondence includes draft letters and notes. Other papers include an Artspeak comic strip `Babooshka' and Green Gallery mailers regarding exhibitions. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss, printed matter, typescripts

Date: 1895-1905

From: In the Light of the Past :Photographs of New Zealand stained glass in houses and public buildings

Reference: PA12-1437

Description: Mostly show windows of relatively simple geometric design using unpainted coloured glass. Many of the windows feature inserts of sprays of flowers, birds, and vegetation painted in a realistic manner on circular or rectangular sections of glass. All of the windows are in styles originating in the late 19th century. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: 1890-1905

From: In the Light of the Past :Photographs of New Zealand stained glass in houses and public buildings

Reference: PA12-1439

Description: Mostly windows of geometric design using unpainted coloured glass. Many have realistically painted inserts depicting birds on leafy branches. A number of these are native birds. One set of entrance windows is in an art nouveau style overall with realistically painted birds on inset discs of glass. One of the set of windows in this section belonging to the Historic Places Trust is currently (1998) housed at the Dowse Art Museum. These with their pictures of native birds came from the chemist shop of W C Fitzgerald, Lambton Quay and Willis Street Wellington. Another window from the same source in this section, also belonging to the Historic Places Trust, is also housed in the Dowse Art Museum. It depicts a leafy shrub growing out of a pot, surrounded by a boarder of round coloured pieces of glass and leaf scrolls. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: 1895-1905

From: In the Light of the Past :Photographs of New Zealand stained glass in houses and public buildings

Reference: PA12-1438

Description: Most of the windows are of geometric design using unpainted coloured glass. Many of these windows have realistically painted inserts depicting birds on leafy branches -- some of them native birds, and in one case the head and upper body of a woman in a classical style. All of the windows are in styles originating in the late 19th century. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: 1895-1905

From: In the Light of the Past :Photographs of New Zealand stained glass in houses and public buildings

Reference: PA12-1432

Description: A range of, mainly, domestic stained glass windows in late 19th century decorative styles. There is one landscape made up of coloured and painted sections depicting a Maori canoe against mountains. Several of the windows include figures, two of which depict a Maori man and woman in traditional costume. Others show men in mediaeval costume including chain mail and armour. The rest of the windows are made up predominantly of geometric designs into which have been inserted circular or rectangular pictures of flowers, or birds on branches. Some of these windows reflect the influences of fashionable "japonisime" and the "Aesthetic Movement", others the geometry and figure styles of the gothic revival. Four windows have designs acid etched into flashed glass with an outer surface of red or blue, and two have designs acid etched or sand blasted onto white glass. Quantity: 23 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: [ca 1960s-1970s]

From: Curnow family: Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-12905-095

Description: Contains family history and biographical papers about the life and career of Betty Curnow. Includes: a party invitation to the New Vision Gallery from Betty Curnow, Anne and Colin McCahon and others, circa 1970s; correspondence regarding a craft conference, 1960s; notes about J C Sharland; several manuscripts and typescripts written by Curnow on her artistic career and the New Zealand arts scene. Title supplied by Library. Arrangement: Originally housed in an annotated red eastlight folder. Arrived in the transit box numbered “7”. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Processing information: A photocopy of the annotations on the folder is alongside the material.

Date: Mar 1998-2 Aug 2008, 2011

From: Mason, Helen Wilmot, 1915-2014: Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-11191-42

Description: Contains correspondence from potters Doreen Blumhardt, [Mirek Smisek ?], Jenny Shearer, and John Lawrence. Also a letter from journalist Denis Welch, with his poem 'Grapefruit' attached. Papers include postcard, numerous greeting cards (including photographs of Blumhardt's work), examples of Lawrence's pots (ca 2001), a newspaper clipping of review of exhibition by potter Steve Martin, and a letter from Mason's daughter Julia Stuart with an annotation from Lawrence permitting his correspondence to be deposited and accessed in an archive. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss, printed matter, typescripts

Date: 2004-2007, 1938-1989

By: Hardie, Roger W, active 1956-2007

Reference: MS-Papers-8723

Description: Correspondence and notes created by Roger Hardie in the course of writng his history of the Department of Education Art and Crafts specialist staff 1938-1989. Source of title - Supplied by Library Roger Hardie, a former art and crafts specialist with the Department of Education, wrote and published `...the buds of flowering, an archive list of Department of Education art and crafts specialist staff 1938-1989'. Quantity: 4 folder(s). 0.40 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs, mss, typescripts, printed matter Transfers: Photographs transferred to Photographic Archive and held at PAColl-9109. The main collection remains with Manuscripts and Archives - To Photographic Archive - Photographs - To Book Collections - Published matter.

Date: [1930-1975]

From: Sutch, William Ball (Dr), 1907-1975 : Papers

Reference: 96-145-1/03

Description: Comprises cuttings, correspondence, catalogues, article, probably by Sutch, `Ukiyo-Ye', on Japanese prints, with list of contents supplied by donor (A1); and loose pages from an unsourced article re UN and power politics which relates to Sutch's successful struggle to preserve UNICEF (B1) Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1955-1965

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs : An Encyclopedia of New Zealand - Sports and Pastimes Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-2000-05

Description: Includes men's and women's outdoor bowls, boxing, brass bands, bridge, broom throwing, canoeing (including white water), car clubs, cattle breeding, chess, chopping, coal shovelling, Competitions Society, coursing, crafts and men's cricket Quantity: 1 folder(s).