Mayo, Eileen Rosemary (Dame), 1906-1994

Artist, illustrator, writer and teacher. Born Norwich, England. Arrived in Australia in 1953 and in New Zealand in 1962. She died in Christchurch, in 1994. Known for her illustrative work, screen prints, stamp and coin designs and calligraphy.

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Mayo, Eileen Rosemary (Dame), 1906-1994 :Australia. Particulars at Government, shipping...

Date: 1953 - 1960

From: Mayo, Eileen Rosemary (Dame), 1906-1994 :[Smaller works on paper. 1920s-1990s]

By: Mayo, Eileen Rosemary (Dame), 1906-1994

Reference: B-131-06-016

Description: A photograph of a travel poster showing a kangaroo with a joey in its pouch, silhouetted against the sky, and flanked with grass trees Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Black and white photograph, 298 x 192 mm Provenance: Donation: Eileen Mayo, Christchurch, 1994

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Mayo, Eileen Rosemary (Dame), 1906-1994 :Discover Australia. Particulars at government,...

Date: 1956 - 1960

By: Mayo, Eileen Rosemary (Dame), 1906-1994; Australian National Travel Association; McLaren & Company Pty Ltd

Reference: D-001-036

Description: Poster promoting Australia as a tourist destination, shows an Aborigine with long tapering tasselled headdress, and an emu in Aboriginal art style. A border along the top features emu footprints. Dated from other similar posters by the artist. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour photolithograph, 1000 x 630 mm.

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[Mayo, Eileen Rosemary (Dame)], 1906-1994 :[Panels designed for David Jones shop window...

Date: 1953 - 1960

From: Mayo, Eileen Rosemary (Dame), 1906-1994 :[Smaller works on paper. 1920s-1990s]

By: Mayo, Eileen Rosemary (Dame), 1906-1994

Reference: B-131-04-028

Description: A photograph of a department store shop window showing mannequins in evening dress. Behind the mannequins are six tall panel designed and possibly painted by Eileen Mayo, showing flora and fauna in a decorative pattern Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Black and white photograph, 191 x 250 mm Provenance: Donation: Eileen Mayo, Christchurch, 1994

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Mayo, Eileen Rosemary (Dame), 1906-1994 :[English country scene, late 1940s?]

Date: 1945 - 1952

From: Mayo, Eileen Rosemary (Dame), 1906-1994 :[Smaller works on paper. 1920s-1990s]

By: Mayo, Eileen Rosemary (Dame), 1906-1994

Reference: B-131-05-001

Description: A clipping from an illustrated English magazine showing a reproduction of a painting by Eileen Mayo, with a road wending towards a small English village. The accompanying text suggests that the associated article is about British art within the European context Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, image 101 x 149 mm Provenance: Donation: Eileen Mayo, Christchurch, 1994

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Mayo, Eileen Rosemary (Dame), 1906-1994 :Australia. Particulars at Government, shipping...

Date: 1953 - 1960

From: Mayo, Eileen Rosemary (Dame), 1906-1994 :[Smaller works on paper. 1920s-1990s]

By: Mayo, Eileen Rosemary (Dame), 1906-1994

Reference: B-131-06-017

Description: A photograph of a travel poster showing a pair of koala bears, one with a baby clinging to its back. They are climbing a flowering eucalyptus tree. Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Black and white photograph, 298 x 192 mm Provenance: Donation: Eileen Mayo, Christchurch, 1994

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Mayo, Eileen Rosemary, 1906-1994 :Chatham Islands mollymawk diomedia cauta eremita. New...

Date: 1965 - 1975

From: Mayo, Eileen Rosemary (Dame), 1906-1994 :[Smaller works on paper. 1920s-1990s]

By: Mayo, Eileen Rosemary (Dame), 1906-1994; New Zealand. Government Printing Office

Reference: B-131-01-012

Description: A set of 14 New Zealand one-cent stamps showing the Chatham Islands mollymawk, head and shoulders and in fligth. Stamp design by Eileen Mayo. Quantity: 14 photolithographs. Physical Description: Offset photolithography, 26 x 42 mm on perforated sheet 190 x 97 mm Provenance: Donation: Eileen Mayo, Christchurch, 1994

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Mayo, Eileen Rosemary (Dame), 1906-1994 :Town Belt. Artist's proof. Two only. This is n...

Date: 1973

From: Mayo, Eileen Rosemary (Dame), 1906-1994 :[Large works on paper. 1920s-1990s]

By: Mayo, Eileen Rosemary (Dame), 1906-1994

Reference: C-127-043

Description: Two-storied houses amongst bush on a steep hill, Dunedin in the early 1970s No. 10, p. 114 in Margaret Taylor's listing of the collection. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Image, sheet and mount measurements in the artist's hand Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Silk screen print, 592 x 324 mm

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Mayo, Eileen Rosemary (Dame), 1906-1994 :Pigeon in Winter. Kereru Waikari. 28/30 [1973]

Date: 1973

From: Mayo, Eileen Rosemary (Dame), 1906-1994 :[Large works on paper. 1920s-1990s]

By: Mayo, Eileen Rosemary (Dame), 1906-1994

Reference: C-127-022

Description: A native wood-pigeon (kereru) silhouetted on a bare branch against the sky and hills Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - title and edition number (28 out of 30) in pencil Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Silk screen print on grey wove paper, 553 x 423 mm

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Mayo, Eileen Rosemary (Dame), 1906-1994 :Cat on yellow shawl [1940s?]

Date: 1926 - 1939

From: Mayo, Eileen Rosemary (Dame), 1906-1994 :[Smaller works on paper. 1920s-1990s]

By: Mayo, Eileen Rosemary (Dame), 1906-1994

Reference: B-131-02-001

Description: A photograph of an oil painting, showing a tabby cat curled up asleep on a shawl. The title comes from the artist's inscription on the reverse Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Black and white photograph, 196 x 205 mm Provenance: Donation: Eileen Mayo, Christchurch, 1994

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Mayo, Eileen Rosemary (Dame), 1906-1994 :Spanish kitchen. 24/25. 1947

Date: 1947

From: Mayo, Eileen Rosemary (Dame), 1906-1994 :[Large works on paper. 1920s-1990s]

By: Mayo, Eileen Rosemary (Dame), 1906-1994

Reference: C-127-058

Description: A Spanish kitchen with tiles on the floor, a woven basket on the wall, a table with a wine or oil carafe, an orange casserole marked 'Conchita' and a bowl covered with a large fig leaf Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - title, date and edition number in pencil. Bottom right: signature Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, coloured, 476 x 337 mm Finding Aids: No. 48, p. 115 in Margaret Taylor's listing of the collection.

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Mayo, Eileen Rosemary (Dame), 1906-1994 :Great Barrier Reef, Queensland. Bookings at Qu...

Date: 1959 - 1963

By: Mayo, Eileen Rosemary (Dame), 1906-1994; McLaren & Company Pty Ltd; Queensland Government Tourist Bureau

Reference: D-001-037

Description: Poster promoting the Great Barrier Reef as a tourist destination, showing a black and white striped fish with yellow fins, swimming by bright orange coral and a volute shellfish. Dated from website versions of other copies of this poster in Australian libraries. Other Titles - The Great Barrier Reef; longspined butterfly-fish & Heron Island volute Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour photolithograph on poster 1000 x 640 mm.

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Mayo, Eileen Rosemary (Dame), 1906-1994 :[Blue nets. England, 1949]

Date: 1926 - 1939

From: Mayo, Eileen Rosemary (Dame), 1906-1994 :[Smaller works on paper. 1920s-1990s]

By: Mayo, Eileen Rosemary (Dame), 1906-1994

Reference: B-131-06-005

Description: A photograph of an oil painting, showing a fishing boat in dry dock, the nets spread out like sails to dry. Two men are on the pierside. The boat is inscribed Au 188. Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Black and white photograph, 211 x 151 mm Provenance: Donation: Eileen Mayo, Christchurch, 1994

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Britton, Dorothy :Japan. Secondary School bulletin volume 17 number 6. Wellington, Depa...

Date: 1968

From: Mayo, Eileen Rosemary (Dame), 1906-1994 :[Smaller works on paper. 1920s-1990s]

By: Mayo, Eileen Rosemary (Dame), 1906-1994

Reference: B-131-13-019

Description: A publication illustrated with photographs, with cover, end-papers and chapter motifs drawn by Eileen Mayo Quantity: 1 booklet. Physical Description: Offset printed pages, stapled, illustrated, 66 pages, 171 x 231 mm

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The School magazine. New South Wales Department of Education. September 1972, Part 3. [...

Date: 1972

From: Mayo, Eileen Rosemary (Dame), 1906-1994 :[Smaller works on paper. 1920s-1990s]

By: Mayo, Eileen Rosemary (Dame), 1906-1994

Reference: B-131-13-046

Description: A range of illustrated stories, including a cover illustration by Eileen Mayo, Boat Market, Singapore A variant original for the cover illustration is held as an ink drawing at B-131-13-042, titled Water market Singapore Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset printed pages, stapled, 30 pages, black and white illustrations

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Grain Products: European holiday. [Set of 20 cards. 1980]

Date: 1980

By: Mayo, Eileen Rosemary (Dame), 1906-1994; Grain Products Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-PICTURE-CARDS-Grain-1980-02

Description: Set of 20 cards, of which the following are held: 6. Stockholm Sweden 10. Dubrovnik Yugoslavia 12. Palermo Sicily 13. The Colosseum Rome 14. Venice Italy 17. Country village Spain Quantity: 6 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs, on cards 57 x 73 mm.

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Mayo, Eileen Rosemary, 1906-1994 :Sturt's desert pea, Australia. Melbourne, Australian ...

Date: 1950 - 1959

By: Mayo, Eileen Rosemary (Dame), 1906-1994; Australian National Travel Association

Reference: D-001-039

Description: A large view of Sturt's desert pea in flower, advertising tourism in Australia Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, coloured, 1012 x 631 mm Provenance: Purchase: Dunbar Sloane auction, Auckland, 11 May 2008, lot N140

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Mayo, Eileen Rosemary (Dame), 1906-1994 :Homage to Pierre Finch Martineau Burrows 1842-...

Date: 1977

From: Mayo, Eileen Rosemary (Dame), 1906-1994 :[Large works on paper. 1920s-1990s]

By: Mayo, Eileen Rosemary (Dame), 1906-1994

Reference: C-127-049

Description: A side view of the Chief Post Office, Christchurch, with the Regent Theatre in the background to the right The Christchurch Chief Post Office (in Cathedral Square) was designed by architect P. F. M. Burrows No. 15, p. 114 in Margaret Taylor's listing of the collection Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - title and edition number. Signature bottom right [both in pencil, in the artist's hand] Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Linocut, coloured, 396 x 579 mm

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Mayo, Eileen Rosemary, 1906-1994 :Domestic fowl, including geese and a turkey, belongin...

Date: 1940 - 1949

From: Mayo, Eileen Rosemary (Dame), 1906-1994 :[Smaller works on paper. 1920s-1990s]

By: Mayo, Eileen Rosemary (Dame), 1906-1994

Reference: B-131-01-008

Description: Two snapshots. One of geese in a garden, the second of a turkey with fowls in a garden, probably photographed by Eileen Mayo in England, in her garden Quantity: 2 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photographs, 48 x 63 mm and 62 x 62 mm Provenance: Donation: Eileen Mayo, Christchurch, 1994

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Mayo, Eileen Rosemary (Dame), 1906-1994 :[Logo for] Mawollok. Philip Russell 'Mawallok"...

Date: 1953 - 1962

From: Mayo, Eileen Rosemary (Dame), 1906-1994 :[Smaller works on paper. 1920s-1990s]

By: Mayo, Eileen Rosemary (Dame), 1906-1994

Reference: B-131-04-026

Description: A logo on a large business card for a sheep station in Victoria, Australia Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, image 58 x 42 mm, on card 82 x 140 mm Provenance: Donation: Eileen Mayo, Christchurch, 1994

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Mayo, Eileen Rosemary (Dame), 1906-1994 :[Homage to Pierre Finch Martineau Burrows 1842...

Date: 1977

From: Mayo, Eileen Rosemary (Dame), 1906-1994 :[Large works on paper. 1920s-1990s]

By: Mayo, Eileen Rosemary (Dame), 1906-1994

Reference: C-127-048

Description: A side view of the Chief Post Office, Christchurch, with the Regent Theatre in the background to the right The Christchurch Chief Post Office (in Cathedral Square) was designed by architect P. F. M. Burrows No. 5, p. 114 in Margaret Taylor's listing of the collection Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - x Paper damaged middle left side. Otherwise a good print. Signature, bottom right [both in pencil, in the artist's hand] Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Linocut, coloured, 396 x 579 mm