Art - Exhibitions

Date: 2010

From: [Posters and other ephemera of A3 size relating to Maori issues. 2010-2014]

By: Canterbury Museum (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: Eph-C-MAORI-2010-01

Description: Exhibition booklet with photographs of taonga on display. Contains essays by Mark Solomon, Megan Tamati-Quennell, Moana Tipa. The final pages contain a full catalogue of the exhibition. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 28 pages, 275 x 272 mm. Provenance: Acquired in 2010.

Date: 1975 - 1979

Reference: Eph-D-GRAPHIC-ARTS-1975/1979

Description: Includes posters for: Art in the Mail; international exhibition of art-as-postal-activity, on the South Pacific tour: Australian leg. Organized by the Manawatu Art Gallery. Australian tour by the Australia Gallery Directors Council. [Two different posters, 1976 and 1979?] Aspects of Australian art [George Baldessin / Imants Tillers. According to Des Esseintes. 1976]. National Art Gallery, February 4 - March 26 [ca 1976-1980?] Auckland City Art Gallery. Festival exhibitions. Drawings by Thomas Rowlandson 7 March - 20 April; Three dimensional fibre; fibre as fine art. 11 March - 31 March [1975]. Fashions and follies. Auckland City Art Gallery. 25 November 1975-18 January 1976. The genius of Giovanni Battista Piranesi 1720-1778. 65 etchings from the collections of the Auckland City Art Gallery, Dr W S Auburn, National Gallery Wellington, Alexander Turnbull Library. 26 April - 5 June 1977 (2 copies) Charles Heaphy, V.C. exhibition, Alexander Turnbull Library. The Terrace, Oct-Nov. [1977]. Tony Fomison; a survey of his painting and drawing from 1961 to 1979. Dowse Art Gallery, October 15th to November 18th [1979]. Galerie Legard; Director Janne Land ( 44 Upland Road Kelburn, Wellington). Recent paintings Malcolm Benham. 7-24 August [1979]. (2 copies) Galerie Legard. Andrew Bogle, Paul Hartigan drawings. 28 Aug - 14 Sep 1979. Galerie Legard. Glenda Randerson paintings and lithographs. 25 Aug - 12 Sep [1979]. Galerie Legard. Hotere recent paintings. 5-24 November 1979. David Graham; an exhibition of paintings. McDougall Art Gallery 15 September to 14 October [1975]. Fernand Leger; an exhibition from the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Auckland City Art Gallery, 6 September - 3 October 1976. (2 copies) Parihaka; a selection of paintings from the Parihaka series by Selwyn Muru. Dowse Art Gallery. 10 February - 7 March 1979. (2 copies) 6 x 4; Australian [and] New Zealand print makers. Waikato Art Museum October 22 - November 16. [1975]. (Shows "Waioeka 2" by Marilyn Webb). Robert McDougall Art Gallery. New Canterbury contemporaries. September 14 - October 10, 1979 (with inset portraits of artists Pauline Trengrove, Mark de la Mare, John Hurrell, Glenn Jowitt, Paul Johns, Murray Hedwig, Michael Ebel, Harvey Taylor, Michael Reed, Simon Allison, Bing Dawe, Graham Snowden, Neil Dawson, Peter Wolden, Bruce Robinson) Stephanie Sheehan: "Audience" 1975 (2 copies) Pictures. Taj Mahal Gallery. Aug 23-Sept 11 [1976?] Gustave Ferdinand von Tempsky; the man and the artist; an exhibition at Waikato Art Museum, 11 May - 4 June [1978]. (2 copies) Wellington Polytechnic; the 1979 Design School exhibitons "Gestalt". City Art Gallery, 24 November - 2 December 1979. Wilderness 5; an exhibition of works from nature in N.Z. ; Nancy Adams, Brian Enting, John Johns, Greig Royle, Susan Skerman. 8 June 1979. Quantity: 21 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs, sizes varying below 800 x 600 mm.

Date: 1986

By: Auckland City Art Gallery

Reference: Eph-E-SCULPTURE-1986-01

Description: Shows a photograph of "Pediment XXI" by Denis O'Connor. Lists sculptors represented in the show: Chris Booth, Bronwynne Cornish, Bing Dawe, Jacqueline Fraser, Christine Hellyar, Robert Jesson, Vivian Lynn, Selwyn Muru, Denis O'Connor, Maria Olsen, Warren Viscoe. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 840 x 595 mm. Provenance: Donated by Ms Jo Torr, Wellington, in 2005.

Date: 1944

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency

Reference: PAColl-4161-01-204

Description: Photographs taken of the `New Zealand Artists in Uniform' exhibition held in Wellington, Mar 1944 Quantity: 4 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1926-1995

By: Lee-Johnson, Eric Albert, 1908-1993

Reference: MS-Group-0399

Description: Papers comprise: Family correspondence, including some correspondence with Eric's widow, Elizabeth, after his death, 1930-1995; general correspondence, mainly relating to art, 1935-1993; papers relating to `Arts year book' which Lee-Johnson edited in 1950-1951; papers relating to career as commercial artist, painter and photographer, 1926-1993; autobiographical papers including drafts of `No road to follow'; limericks and nonsense poems and household and personal papers relating mainly to residence in Waihi and Kamo, 1935-1990 Commercial artist, painter and photographer Quantity: 284 folder(s). 1 volume(s). 2 box(es). 6 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs, mss, typescripts and printed matter Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, 1995 Processing information: Access requirement for permission of the Chief Librarian removed 1 December 2023.

Date: 2010

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to jewellery]

Reference: Eph-A-JEWELLERY-2010-01

Description: Pamphlet with photographs of artworks by Victoria McIntosh, incorporating found objects and human hair. Other Titles - Accessing ancestry Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Pamphlet, folded in 3, to 215 x 197 mm.

Date: 1960 - 1979

Reference: Eph-C-CERAMICS-1960/1979

Description: Includes: 1963: New Zealand ceramics. New Zealand designs are top sellers in Melbourne. Published by Crown Lynn Potteries Ltd., January 1963 1971?: Warren Tippett and Jeff Scholes present The Tippett-Scholes pot show, at the Rothmans Cultural Foundation Display Centre, 8 - 26 Feb[ruary 1971?]. 1974: Waikato Society of Potters. 2nd annual exhibition 1974. 6-18 October 1974. [Catalogue] 1976: Doreen Blumhardt. Pots. Dowse Art Gallery, October 1976. Catalogue of 140 pieces. 1979: British pottery from New Zealand collections. Guest exhibitor Deirdre Burnett. Waikato Art Museum form June 8th - July 9th [1979]. Quantity: 4 colour photo-mechanical print(s). 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph on posters sizes varying up to 500 x 330 mm.

Date: 1964 - 1969

From: Roberts, Rex, fl 1970-1990s (collector) :[Collection of art exhibition and dealers' catalogues, 1914-1999].

By: Alexander Turnbull Library; Auckland City Art Gallery

Reference: E-929-F-004

Description: Includes: New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts catalogues: Annual 1964-1968; Autumn 1964-1965, 1967-1969; Sculpture Pottery and Graphic Arts 1965. Alexander Turnbull Library. A selection of early New Zealand paintings 1840-1900 from the collections of the Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington. 1965. [Catalogue] George French Angas. South Australia. Facsimile editions of the works of George French Angas. A H & A W Reed. 1967. Arts & Crafts Wairoa. Selections from 19th Centurey New Zealand painting. May 2nd to 6th 1966. [Catalogue] Auckland City Art Gallery. Summary catalogue of the collection. October 1964. Auckland City Art Gallery. Australian painting XIX and XX century. [1964] Auckland City Art Gallery. James Nairn [and] Edward Fristrom. August 1964 [Catalogue] Auckland City Art Gallery. New Zealand painting. 1966 [Catalogue] Auckland Star Post Primary art exhibition 1964. Catalogue. Auckland Star Post Primary art exhibition 1965. Catalogue. Auckland Star Post Primary art exhibition 1966. Catalogue. Auckland War Memorial Museum. Centennial Street 1866; handbook of colonial collections. August 1966. Bishop Suter Art Gallery. Catalogue. 1964. Contemporary painting in New Zealand; an exhibition organised by the Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council. [1966. Catalogue with biographical notes on Rita Angus, Don Binney, Bryan Dew, John Drawbridge, Robert Ellis, Suzanne Goldberg, Rudolf Gopas, Patrick Hanly, Colin McCahon, Milan Mrkusich, Don Peebles, Ross Ritchie, W A Sutton, Philip Trusttum, M T Woollaston] Dominion Museum. Historical New Zealand exhibition Wellington New Zealand. April 14 - May 24 1965. Catalogue of rare prints, lithographs, etc. Eight New Zealand artists: Binney, Ellis, Garrity, Hanly, McCahon, Mrkusich, Ritchie, Twiss. [Nov-December 1965. Catalogue]. Hocken Library, University of Otago. The origins of Frances Hodgkins; an exhibition of paintings in the centennial year of her birth. 1969. [Catalogue] Hocken Library, University of Otago. Three generations; paintings by J C Richmond, D K Richmond, E H Atkinson. November 1966. Hoyte, J C. New Zealand paintings by J C Hoyte. Series 1. Auckland, Hooker and Company Ltd, 1968. James Smith's Gallery. Exhibition of paintings by W S Wauchop and Carl T Laugeson in James Smith's Gallery (2nd floor) cornerof Cuba & Manners Streets, Wellington. September 29th to October 10th 1969. [Catalogue] McCormick, E H. Sir William Fox, public man and painter. Wellington, Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust Board, 1966. McLeavey, Peter. Fine arts newsletter from Wellington - YCs. 16.3.68 [Typescript text of a radio broadcast, 16 March 1968]. National Art Gallery (Wellington). Early New Zealand; watercolours and drawings from the Chevalier, J C Richmond and Swainson collections at the National Art Gallery, Wellington New Zealand. [1960s] National Art Gallery (Wellington). Nairn and his associates; selected from works in the collection of the National Art Gallery, Wellington New Zealand. [Catalogue and supplement. 1960s] National Art Gallery (Wellington). Van der Velden; paintings and drawings in the collection of the National Art Gallery. April 1968. New Zealand Publishing Society. Suzanne Goldberg. Studies of New Zealand painters, no. 1. Auckland. 1967. Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council of New Zealand. Frances Hodgkins 1869-1947; a centenary exhibition. [Catalogue. 1969] Three New Zealand artists: John Hutton, Douglas MacDiarmid, William Newland. An exhibition at New Zealand House, Haymarket London, SW1. 11 May - 5 June 1964. [Catalogue] 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: 27 monographs, 1 typescript and 11 NZAFA catalogues. Physical Description: Booklets and monographs sizes varying. Provenance: Donated by Mr Rex Roberts in 2003.

Date: 2011

By: City Gallery Wellington

Reference: Eph-A-ARTS-2011-01

Description: Includes: 1. Folded pamphlet featuring a photograph of Holly Beals at her Gallons table by Candywhistle (2 copies) 2. Digital print of an early photograph [Election day in New Plymouth 1893] showing the "cheapest & best furniture warehouse in New Plymouth" 3. Business card for Abby Cunnane, Michael Hirschfeld Gallery Curator 4. A Mobile library! [Black and white flyer] (2 copies) 5. Booklet - an edited transcript of a conversation held at City Gallery Wellington on the 13th October 2011. Participants Anne Noble, Lauren Redican, Nicole Skews and Megan Tamati-Quennell, and were invited to discuss the photo "Election day in New Plymouth, 1893". Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Digital prints and photographs on flyers and pamphlets, sizes varying up to 210 mm.

Date: 1981

Reference: Eph-D-MAORI-1981-03

Description: Poster shows 18 photographs of artworks by: John Walsh, Ralph Hotere, Darcy Nicholas, Rangimarie Hetet, Sandy Adsett, John Hovell, Matt Pine, Buck Nin, Arnold Wilson, Matahi-Greg Whakataka, Para Matchitt, Digger Te Kanawa, Selwyn Muru, Cliff Whiting, Toi Maihi, Robyn Kahukiwa, Susie Roiri, Fred Graham. The verso gives biographical notes about each artist, and also includes Katerina Mataira, Benjamin Pittman, Rei Hamon, Ross Hemara, and Albert Tamati Other Titles - A festival organised by the New Zealand Maori Artists and Writers Society (Inc) Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph on poster 570 x 420 mm. Provenance: Donated by Andrea Tangohau, Wellington, in 2013.

Date: 1988

Reference: Eph-C-ARTS-1988

Description: Includes: Arch Rex 1989. Auckland City calendar. Photographs by Deborah Smith, Mark Smith, Myfanwy Rees, Tania Evans, Jennifer French. Fish Shop Gallery, 186 Ponsonby Road, 14-19 November 1988. Craft Promotions NZ Ltd. Festival of the Arts craft show. Overseas Terminal Wellington, 18-20 March, 10-6 pm. Dowse Art Museum. What's on (including "The innocent eye; rediscovering the vision of art's unsung heroes") [1988] Hutt Art Society :Hutt Art Society festival exhibition. March 1988 7th - 20th, 10am - 4pm daily at Odlins Gallery, cnr Huia & Myrtle Sts ... Saturday 12th - Sunday 13th 10am - 4 pm [1988] Hutt Valley Community Arts Council. The Evening Post Hutt Valley Craft Festival. Eastbourne Community Centre, 12 November 10-4.39 pm [1988] Jonathan Milne Art courses; everyone can paint and draw! 5 McIntyre Avenue Wellington 1. Phone 848-531 Mahi a Ringa; art & craft exhibition. Parumoana Polytech, Wineera Drive Porirua, 21-25 Nov [1988] New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts. Art courses 1988, term 1 (2 copies) New Zealand Craft Shows Ltd. New Zealand Craft Show 1988; where a selection of New Zealand's finest craftspeople exhibit and sell direct to the public. Wellington Overseas Passenger Terminal 5-7 Aug; Lower Hutt Walter Nash Stadium and Taita Community Hall 12-14 Aug [1988] (2 copies) National Art Gallery presents a Nga Puna Waihanga exhibtion, Taki Toru; three installations by Maori artists: Selwyn Muru, Paratene Matchitt, Ralph Hotere. Shed 11, 16 July - 28 August 1988. Nga Toi a te Iwi; the arts of the people; and Nga Hua o te Iwi, the Fruits of the People, an exhibition of Northland Gourd Art presented by the Northern Regional Arts Council. National Library Gallery, 5-26 March 1988 (2 copies) Wellington Community Arts Council. Public meeting; "A ministry of arts & culture". Loaves & Fishes, Molesworth Street Wellington, 3 August, 7.30 pm [1988] Wellington Oriental Art Group. Exhibition. Turnbull House, Bowen Street, 14-20 November [1988] Quantity: 13 colour photo-mechanical print(s) and b&w prints. Physical Description: Photolithographs, sizes varying around 420 x 297 mm. Provenance: Donated from various sources

Date: 1933

From: Reeve, Alan 1910-1962 :[Album no. 1. 1910-1939].

Reference: E-409-q-014

Description: Shows a group of people at Alan Reeve's first exhibition of caricature portraits, in Wellington 1933. Note beneath image written by Alan Reeve reads: This Exhibition was widely publicized in New Zealand because the daughter of a former Prime Minister (she is third from the right) tore her caricature down, then tore it up, before a notable assembly which included the then Prime Minister, the Chief Justice, and other less indignant sitters. Appropriately, A Justice of the Peace bought the reassembled pieces of the drawing and framed them. Inscriptions: Recto - above image - At opening of AR's First Exhibition of Caricature-Portraits, Wellington, Nov, `33. Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph, b&w, 140 x 195 mm

Date: 1882-1987

By: New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts

Reference: MS-Group-0580

Description: Includes the minutes for the Fine Arts Association 1882-1889, and for the Academy 1889-1983, members registers, financial records, a large amount of correspondence from 1911 to 1989, files on exhibitions and other activities, including relations with local art societies, lists of artists and paintings, photographic albums, and scrapbooks of newsclippings. Included with this collection are minutes and other papers relating to the Association of New Zealand Art Societies. Source of title - Supplied Arrangement: Sorted into series based on the type of record. The Fine Arts Association of New Zealand was founded in 1882 in Wellington "for the promotion and encouragement of fine arts in New Zealand". In 1889 the Society was wound up and its assets given to the new Academy of Fine Arts. By 1892 the Academy had built itself a gallery on Whitmore Street, and by 1907, had gathered enough paintings to open the gallery as a free art gallery, to be "the nucleus of a national collection". In 1930 the National Art Gallery and Dominion Museum Act was passed, and in 1936 the Academy presented its permanent collection to the new gallery in return for being accommodated in the museum building and being represented on the Board of Trustees. Quantity: 17 box(es) (58 issuable items). 34 volume(s). 186 folder(s). 3 microfilm reel(s). 14 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts, printed matter, photographs Finding Aids: A full inventory, together with an index to the more prominent artists, exists for the records listed under MS-Papers-1372-*..

Date: [1960-1983]

By: Bett, Elva Lilian, 1918-2016

Reference: 89-026

Description: Comprises artists' files (A-Z); Bett Duncan Gallery scrapbooks (1968-1980), newsletters and catalogues (1978-1980) and financial records (1976-1983); subject files, galleries and art councils, mostly invitations and promotional material); gallery invitations and catalogues; miscellaneous material on artists (A-Z); sketch book with teaching notes for art classes (1960s); artists' sales records (1968-1980); correspondence; notebooks relating to running of gallery and art classes (1968-1983); photographs of work of NZ artists (1970s-1980s) and negatives and photographs of works of art, NZ and non-NZ (ca 1970s-1980s) Source of title - Supplied title Relationship complexity - See also 78-115 for Bett-Duncan Gallery records Bett-Duncan Gallery was established in Oct 1968 by Catherine Duncan and Elva Bett. In 1975 Catherine Duncan retired and the gallery was renamed the Elva Bett Gallery. In 1980 the gallery was sold to Louise Beale and became known as the Louise Beale Gallery. It closed in 1991. Quantity: 156 folder(s). 1 volume(s). 6 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter Transfers: Collection as a whole received into Manuscripts; material transferred to other sections from here - To Drawings & Prints Collection - Philip Clairmont watercolour with list on verso (From Artist's file at 89-026-06) [C-139-003]; Six watercolours by Phillip O'Sullivan, ca 1980-1981 [A-373-030/035]; Parihaka Centennial Exhibition & Art Auction catalogue [ArtEph-81-p-03] - To Photographic Archive - 2 boxes of loose photographs, negatives and postcards. Includes photos of works by NZ artists (some copies). [PAColl-7663].

Date: 1946-ca1980

From: Zoe Martin-Carter: Photographs of Wellington and the Centennial Exhibition

By: Shore Bennett, Beverley Doris, 1928-

Reference: PAColl-4887-2

Description: Seven photographs recording the ceremony at wich Beverley Shore Bennett, as a student of 18 received 25 guineas from the Petone Council for her painting of the arrival of European settlers at Petone. There are also a number of newspaper clippings relating to her subsequent career as an artist and designer Quantity: 7 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1981

By: New Zealand Society of Potters

Reference: Eph-D-CERAMICS-1981-03

Description: Shows a photograph of a detail of an Hamada bowl. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph on poster 575 x 420 mm. Provenance: Acquired in 1982.

Date: 1928

By: New Zealand free lance (Newspaper)

Reference: ArtEph-1928-H-01

Description: An arrangement of text in an art deco style. The date is taken from the verso which gives biographical notes about the artist. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset lithograph on sheet 185 x 132 mm. Transfers: From Photographic Archive - PAColl-0785.

Date: 1877

By: Strutt, William, 1825-1915; Strutt, Alfred William, 1856-1924

Reference: A-247-027

Description: A poster for an exhibition in London. Shows a roaring lion drawn ca 1880 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, monotone 169 x 127 mm

Date: 1959

Reference: ArtEph-1959-N-01

Description: Catalogue of 275 exhibits at the exhibition. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: 8 pages typescript. Provenance: Purchased in 2003. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - A2003-304 - Transfer from Manuscripts & Archives - A2003-304..

Date: 1973

By: Manawatu Art Gallery

Reference: Eph-C-GRAPHIC-ARTS-1973-01

Description: Advertises an exhibition of works by Toss Woollaston. Shows a reproduction of an ink drawing, a 1962 group portrait sketch. The exhibition was organised by the Manawatu Art Gallery (August 1973), with assistance from the QE II Arts Council. It toured to Govett Brewster Art Gallery (Sept/Oct 1973), National Art Gallery (Oct/Nov 1973), Auckland City Art Gallery (Jan/Feb 1974), Robert McDougall Art Gallery (March 1974), Dunedin Public Art Gallery (April 1974) Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) on poster.. Physical Description: Photolithograph on poster, 370 x 405 mm. Provenance: Acquired in 1982.