McDougall additions

Press, 6 June 1984, Page 18

McDougall additions

Oils by Alan Pearson, Tony Fomison and James Ross, a mixed media work by Ralph Hotere and a porcelain sculpture by Maria Kuczynska are among the more expensive items added to the Robert McDougall Art Gallery’s collection during April. Fourteen works were bought for the collection including a $l5OO mixed media on paper on stainless steel by Mr Hotere. The work is called “1984 No 9.” The Alan Pearson painting, an oil on board, is titled “Teatro Bella Figura 2 (Variations on the Theatre)." It was bought for $1350. Tony Fomison’s oil on hessian, “Legend of Murihaka,” was purchased for the gallery for $1250; James Ross’s painting, “Source 1983,” for $l2OO. Maria Kuczynska’s work was exhibited in New Zealand, although the Polishborn artist was unable to

travel from Australia where she was an artist-in-resi-dence for the show. Her standing figure in porcelain with glaze and lustre was bought for $l2OO. Three Barry Cleavin drawings were included in the acquisitions. They were “Alcatraz Series No 5,” $350, “Altarpiece,” $lBO, and a lithograph, “Designed to Drive Me Up a Wall,” $2OO. Two Gordon Walters screenprints, “Then” and “Rauponga,” $l6O and $250, were added to the collection as well as photographer Bruce Foster’s “Gun Emplacement, Lyttelton Harbour,” $250. An acrylic and enamel on canvas by George Baloghy, “Capricorn Motors, Manakau Rd, 1983," $BOO and Denise Oates “Bird Girl” in cast paper and turkey feathers, $3OO, and Michael Reed's “Concertina Imposition 2,” $350 were also bought.