Auckland City Art Gallery

ACAG

Opened in 1887, the Auckland City Art Gallery was the first in New Zealand. The original Grey Collection presented in 1861 to the citizens of Auckland by Sir George Grey was supplemented in 1885 by the bequest of the collection of James Tannock Mackelvie who also left a sum of money in trust to the city.

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Various artists :[Posters advertising New Zealand two-dimensional art exhibitions or wo...

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.

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Auckland City Art Gallery :[Greeting card]. The nativity. Artist unknown. 16th century ...

Date: 1970 - 1975

By: Auckland City Art Gallery

Reference: E-278-q-125

Description: Reproduction of a photograph on front of a greeting card of `The Nativity', an ivory carving, from the Gothic Collection, Auckland City Art Gallery, 1966. The 16th Spanish carving shows Mary, Joseph and baby Jesus in the stable, with a man and a woman in background, and an ox and a donkey. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 175 x 135 mm on folded card

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Auckland City Art Gallery :Aspects of recent New Zealand art; sculpture 2. Auckland Cit...

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.

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Roberts, Rex, fl 1970-1990s (collector) :[Collection of art exhibition catalogues, 1964...

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.

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Correspondence - G

Date: 1964-1990

From: McCormick, Eric Hall (Dr), 1906-1995 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-5292-023

Description: Includes drafts of outward correspondence by McCormick. Included with letters from Brian Gregory are `Cicada moon'(poems); `For the company' (three short stories); `Thanks to Picasso' (eight drawings) by Gregory Other Titles - For the company; three short stories by Brian Gregory (Lyric Press, 1978) Other Titles - Cicada moon; poems by Brian Gregory (Lyric Press, 1979) Other Titles - Thanks to Picasso; eight drawings by Brian Gregory (1977) Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss and typescripts

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Auckland City Art Gallery :Madonna and child. [Greeting card]. [1970s]

By: Auckland City Art Gallery

Reference: E-278-q-122

Description: Photograph of a wooden statue by a 15th century French Gothic artist, held by the Auckland Art Gallery (A R D Watson bequest 1965). Reproduced on a Christmas card produced by the Auckland City Art Gallery Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph 240 x 118 mm on folded card

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[Calendars for the year 1975, of approximately A3 size. 1974].

Date: 1975

Reference: Eph-C-CALENDAR-1975

Description: Includes calendars: Seatrans Consolidated (NZ) Limited, December 1974-January 1976. (Art work is six colour reproductions of plates from Walter Buller's `A History of the Birds of New Zealand' supplied by the Turnbull Library). (2 copies). Palmerston North 1975 Calendar. (Art work consists of six black and white reproductions of pen drawings by Wilhelmina G Irving). (2 copies). Chatham Islands Jockey Club Centennial, 1874-1974 - December 1974-January 1976. (Six reproductions of colour photographs of Chatham Islands scenes by an unidentified photographer). (2 copies). Wellington 1975 Calendar. (Six black and white reproductions of pen drawings by Wilhelmina G Irving). The National Bank of Australasia Ltd. (Art work consists of 13 colour prints of suburban scenes in early Australia from 1827-1885 by various artists). The Pelorus Press Ltd [Auckland] - December 1974-January 1976, plus a calendar for 1976 in small print at the back. Auckland City Art Gallery: calendar for August 1975 to July 1976. (Art work is a colour reproduction of `Fishing in the Spring' by Vincent Van Gogh). Quantity: 7 calendars, and 3 duplicates.. Physical Description: Offset lithographs, varying sizes.

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Papers re Auckland Art Gallery dispute (photocopies)

Date: 1947-1955

From: Fairburn, Arthur Rex Dugard, 1904-1957 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-1128-099

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

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[Calendars for the years of the 1960s, of approximately A3 size].

Date: 1960 - 1969

By: ICI New Zealand; Alexander, John Hood, 1916-1975; Dominion Breweries Ltd; United States Information Service; New Zealand Railway and Locomotive Society; En-Zed Card & Calendar Company Ltd; Baptist, Miranda, active 2006

Reference: Eph-C-CALENDAR-1960s

Description: Includes calendars: 1960: Alexander Turnbull Library (with reproductions of artworks by George French Angas). Imperial Chemical Industries Limited. Early Wellington; a selection of engravings from the 1847 portfolio of S C Brees, esq. 1960 calendar. 1961: Harry H Tombs Limited. Printers and publishers at the Wingfield press. Calendar Dec 1960-Nov 1961. Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd. Some early New Zealand churches associated with Bishop Selwyn. Original pen and wash drawings by John H Alexander. 1961 calendar. (2 copies) Railway Enthusiasts' Society Inc. Railway enthusiasts' calendar 1961 United States Information Service. "Americans at work". Calendar 1961. 1962: Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd. Early watercolours of the South Island of New Zealand 1845-51, by Sir William Fox KCMG, from the Hocken Library, University of Otago. 1962 calendar. (2 copies) Shell Oil New Zealand Ltd. 1962 calendar presenting a series of pen and wash illustrations of historical New Zealand buildings by John H Alexander. Evening Post Wellington. 1962 almanac (with reproduction of Peter McIntyre painting of Willis Street showing the Evening Post building) 1963: Trevor Strange (Waikanae Beach). Greetings from your Four Square grocer. 1963 calendar. Harry H Tombs Ltd. Calendar 1963 (with reproduction of "A Christmas picnic in New Zealand" by K Airini Vane). 1964: New Zealand Railway & Locomotive Society Inc. Calendar 1964. 1965: En-Zed Card & Calendar Co Ltd (Auckland). [Gotgried Lindauer Maori portraits at Auckland City Art Gallery - includes portraits of Haora Tipa Koinaki, Julia Martin, Tokena te Kerehi, Sophia the Guide, Ratene, Renata Kawepo]. 1965. (2 copies) Bruce Calendar Co Ltd (Ashburton). King Dick Motor Wrecking Co. Ltd (Invercargill). Calendar 1965 (2 different images) 1966: Dominion Breweries Ltd. Waitemata House, Auckland New Zealand. Gold media award, Olympia, Great Britain. By courtesy of the Kelliher Art Trust, twelve reproductions of original oil paintings of New Zealand landscapes by a representative selection of English Australian and New Zealand artists. Calendar for 1966. (Artists include: William Dargie, John Loxton, Claude Muncaster, Douglas Badcock, Rubery Bennett, Douglas Pratt and Ernest Buckmaster) 1967: En-Zed Card & Calendar Co Ltd. The Milford track New Zealand; the world's finest walk. Illustrated calendar 1967. Hodder & Tolley Ltd, seed, grain, produce and fertilizer merchants. Calendar 1967 Waikanae Supermarket Ltd. Greetings from your Four Square grocer. 1967. 1968: Four Square calendar 1968. 1969: Shell calendar. Bicentenary of the voyage of discovery by Captain James Cook 1769. (2 copies) Spa Road Four Square Store. Calendar 1969. Evening Post Wellington. 1969 almanac (with reproduction of painting of the Wellington Club by Rodger Harrison (winner of the Kelliher Prize 1968)) Wellington Teachers' College Students' Association Arts Council. Calendar 1969 (Reproductions of drawings of Fiordland National Park by Alan Howie) Centregraphic Limited. 1969 calendar of original illustrations from the books first published 1790 of Captain Cook's voyages of discovery 1768-1780. (2 copies, one in pieces) Quantity: 25 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on calendars (plus some duplicates). Physical Description: Offset lithographs, varying sizes.

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Blomfield, Charles 1848-1926. :Bush mill, Whatipu, 1881 - [Auckland] ; Cowan, [1979]

Date: 1881

By: Blomfield, Charles, 1848-1926

Reference: C-079-070-a

Description: Original held by Auckland City Art Gallery. One of 6 prints advertising Cowan's paper. Printed on Ambassador Gloss Art 130gsm Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Art reproduction ; photolithograph, coloured 298 x 457 mm

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Merton, Owen, 1887- :Near Motueka, 1909. [Christchurch] Capper Press [1976]

Date: 1976

By: Merton, Owen, 1887-1931; Capper Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: C-085-036

Description: Shows trees and house Reproduction of the original watercolour held by the Auckland Art Gallery Same as C-086-036-a Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Coloured photolithograph, 335 x 273 mm on sheet 635 x 520 mm

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Lloyd, Leslie Charles :[Auckland Art Gallery] Permanent storage container for pictures ...

Date: 1960 - 1969

By: Lloyd, Leslie Charles, active 1950s-1980s

Reference: Plans-80-2269

Description: Details of permanent storage container for pictures on paper showing folding braces and metal mesh shelves Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Black ink drawing on white paper

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Sharpe, Alfred, 1836-1908 :A jam in the lava cleft / A. Sharpe. [Christchurch], Capper ...

Date: 1878 - 1976

By: Capper Press (Christchurch, N.Z.); Sharpe, Alfred, 1836-1908

Reference: C-085-034-a

Description: Shows three large cut kauri logs jammed in a narrow part of a still river, with large rocks in the left foreground and bush vegetation with ferns and tree ferns at the right. Dimensions of original 644 x 457 mm. Other Titles - A jam in the lava cleft - Hays Creek - Papakura, N.Z. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [Title]; Recto - bottom right - Capper Press / Printed in New Zealand; Recto - bottom left - [Other title] Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour photolithograph, 483 x 400 mm, on sheet 637 x 524 mm. Provenance: Deposited under copyright.

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Sharpe, Alfred, 1836-1908 :Coromandel 1875. [Christchurch] Capper Press, 1972

Date: 1972

By: Sharpe, Alfred, 1836-1908; Capper Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: C-085-009-b

Description: Shows goldminers and bush encampment with Firth of Thames in the distance From original watercolour in the Auckland City Art Gallery Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Coloured photolithograph, 385 x 545 mm on sheet 515 x 630 mm

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Lusk, Doris More, 1916-1990 :Tobacco fields, Pangatotara, Nelson 1943 / Doris Lusk. [Sy...

Date: 1943 - 1982

By: Lusk, Doris More, 1916-1990; Art Nouveau Publishing Company

Reference: D-019-012

Description: View of tobacco plantations From original oil in Auckland City Art Gallery Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, coloured 456 x 530 mm (image), 679 x 1012 mm (sheet)

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Nairn, James McLachlan 1859-1904 :Oatfields, Otago 1901. [Christchurch] Capper Press [1...

Date: 1901

By: Nairn, James McLachlan, 1859-1904; Capper Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: C-085-008-b

Description: Tall oats in the foreground, a farmer with a rake over his shoulder, holding the hand of a small girl, a covered haystack in the background Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour photolithograph 400 x 470 mm on sheet 515 x 630 mm

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[Sutton, William Alexander], 1917- :Nor'wester in the cemetery. 1950. [1997?]

Date: 1950 - 1997

By: Sutton, William Alexander, 1917-2000; Robert McDougall Art Gallery

Reference: A-307-009

Description: Shows headstones and a red-roofed church among long dry grass. Quantity: 1 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: Laser photocopy, coloured, on sheet 297 x 420 mm.

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Auckland City Art Gallery :The Reader's Digest Collection; Manet to Picasso. Auckland C...

Date: 1989

By: Auckland City Art Gallery

Reference: ArtEph-1989-A-01

Description: A short description of the Readers' Digest Collection, an essay, exhibition programme and reproductions of works by Manet, Degas, Matisse, Soutine, Seurat and Van Gogh. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph on folded pamphlet 297 x 210 mm. Provenance: Dennis McEldowney papers, 2003.

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Sharpe, Alfred, 1836-1908 :Coromandel 1875. [Christchurch] Capper Press, 1972

Date: 1972

By: Sharpe, Alfred, 1836-1908; Capper Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: C-085-009

Description: Shows goldminers and bush encampment with Firth of Thames in the distance From original watercolour in the Auckland City Art Gallery Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Coloured photolith. 385 x 545 mm on sheet 515 x 630 mm

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Auckland Art Gallery :Handboek; Ans Westra photographs. Auckland Art Gallery, 19 March ...

Date: 2005

By: Auckland City Art Gallery; National Library Gallery (N.Z.)

Reference: Eph-H-PHOTO-EXHIBITION-2005-01

Description: Shows a photograph by Ans Westra, of a group of Maori, entitled "Waiwhetu Marae, September 1960". Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on poster. Physical Description: Photolithograph and relief print on poster, 1420 x 1020 mm.