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View looking north from Mt Iron, Wanaka.
About 1865 Nicholas Chevalier visited New Zealand with his wife and went on a tour of the lakes and mountains of Otago.
Dunedin from Little Paisley.
This small watercolour of Dunedin from Little Paisley was painted by Edward Immyns Abbot in 1849. The work was acquired by Dr T.M. Hocken who described the artist as ‘a young surveyor of superior abilities’. The surveyor’s role was to record…
Evening, Thorndon.
Lower right (l.r.): Rita Angus
At sea.
Lower right (l.r.): Rita Angus.
View from Tinakori Road.
"In the 1960s Wellington's long settled inner suburb of Thorndon was threatened by the proposed construction of a motorway through it. Old houses were pulled down and Wellington's first cemetery was demolished." "When plans for an extension to the…
Self portrait.
Lower right (l.r.) with brush: Rita Angus
Central Otago landscape.
GH Brown says painted to show art school style fashion; Ron Brownson says painted to explore use of texture.
Lawyer’s Head from above St Clair.
Lower left (l.l.) with brush: E Anscombe July 1891; verso: artist’s name & title on torn label
Sisters communing.
Lower right (l.r.) with brush: Fahey
Tomahawk.
"[Field's] ideas on painting had been influenced by the Post-Impressionists to the extent of allowing heightened colour and a degree of flattening and formal interest in the constructin of the imagery. Anywhere else Field would not have seemed…
Interior.
Lower right (l.r.) with brush: R.N. Field, 28. verso: landscape in oils.
A native council of war.
On frame: A Native Council of War. J.A. Gilfillan. 1853
L. Manipori from slopes of the Takatimo mountains.
Lower right (l.r.) with brush: John Gully 1887; l.l. with brush: L. Manipori from slopes of the Takatimo mountains; margin beside image r. in pencil: A; verso in pencil: Manapouri No 2. Manapouri No 2 Distant view from Mt Excelsior
Double portrait.
Lower left (l.l.) with brush: Hodgkins; label: Bourlet & Son, London; label: City of Manchester Art Gallery 15137; label: Double Portrait by Frances Hodgkins lent by Jane Saunders, 12 Victoria Rd Fallow Weld, Manchester; label: Isle of Purbeck Arts…
Girl’s head.
Lower right (l.r.) with brush: N.H. ’95 [monogram]
Study of a negro.
Lower right (l.r.) with brush: NH 95 [monogram]; verso: NH 95 [monogram]
Mr John McGlashan, secretary in Scotland for the Otago settlement.
With brush: [title] Painted by John Irvine from a photograph six years before his death
Portrait of Vivien Oakden.
Lower left (l.l.) with brush: Grace J. Joel.
Mixed Flowers
Lower right (l.r.) with brush: D. Lusk ’40; label: QEII; label [crossed out]: This picture was painted in 1935 when the artist was still a student at the Dunedin School of Art
Tobacco fields, Nelson, N.Z.
Lower left (l.l.) with brush: D. Lusk 41; verso in white paint superimposed over pencil: Tobacco fields, Nelson, N.Z. Doris Lusk 25 Ross St Dunedin; verso in pink crayon: C Brasch Dunedin; label: 20
[Gold dredging, Central.]
Lower right (l.r.) with brush: D. Lusk; verso panel in oil on unprimed surface: [unfinished flower study]
[Self portrait.]
Lower right (l.r.) in pencil: D… [illeg]
[The choir.]
Lower right (l.r.) with brush: D. Lusk 1955