Notes on Art Accessions

Turnbull Library Record, Volume 15, Issue 2, 1 October 1982, Page 126

Notes on Art Accessions

A SELECTIVE LIST OF ACQUISITIONS, JUNE 1980 TO DECEMBER 1981

Acquisitions of art pieces are listed selectively in the Turnbull Library Record to alert scholars to newly acquired material judged to be of research value. The following list updates the ‘Notes on Art Accessions’ in the Record for October 1980. Only original works and significant engravings and prints are included: photomechanical prints recently published are excluded.

ARTIST UNKNOWN. Ahia, chief of Cloudy Bay, New Zealand, taken from life [lB4-?] Watercolour 26.8 x 20.3 cm. PURCHASE. Feedee, a New Zealand chief from the province of Howdruckee . . . Printed by G. C. Engelmann & Co. [Mulhouse, 183-?] Lith. (hand-col.) 24.4 x 21.4 cm. PURCHASE. [Leaves from a South Canterbury sketchbook. 187-?] 6 watercolours on sheets 16.3 x 26.4 cm. Scenes include Timaru and the race-course at Geraldine. Attributions to Emily Weddell Harper or to Frances Brunton have been suggested. PURCHASE.

[Record of a visit to New Zealand] 1864. 11 watercolours, various sizes. New Zealand views include Auckland harbour, St Stephen’s Chapel at Judge’s Bay, the Waikato River at Meremere. Other sketches record the homeward voyage on board the Royal Dane. PURCHASE. S. S. Rangatira passing White Island [lB7-?] Pencil on tracing paper 13.7 X 21.9 cm. PURCHASE. The Weka Rail: Ocydromus australis [London? ca. 1875?] Col. lith. 23.7 x 34.4 cm. PURCHASE.

AUBREY, CHRISTOPHER. Mokau River [ca.lß9s] Pencil & watercolour 19.4 X 37.3 cm. DONATION: Mrs E. M. McDonald, per Mrs J. Caudwell, Waikanae. [bell, sir FRANCIS DILLON] 1822-1898. View of Mount Egmontfrom about three miles from Waokena, January 1845. Watercolour 15.5 x 22.2 cm. DONATION: Mr W. F. Airey, Lower Hutt. C.E.C. St Thomas Church —Tamaki [lB5-?] Pencil & watercolour 20.4 x 38cm. Signed: C.E.C. PURCHASE. CLERE, FREDERICK DE JERSEY, 1856-1952. Seddon memorial, Wellington. 1927 & 1949. 2 watercolours, each 25 X 17.5 cm. DONATION: Mr David Luke, Wellington.

COLLINSON, FERGUS MacPHERSON, b. 1948. Bread is bread . . . salt is salt. . . [1975] Pencil 45.6 x 30.2 cm. Portrait of Hone Tuwhare. Hone and Murray and Fergy . . . [1976] Coloured pencil 37.6 X 55 cm. Group portrait of the artist with Hone Tuwhare, Mary Paul & Murray Edmond. PURCHASE.

[CRAWFORD, JAMES COUTTS] 1817-1889. [Sketchbook of Waikato, East Cape & Northland] 1864. 36 ink & 4 ink & wash drawings in album 13.5 X 18cm. PURCHASE. FLUTE, NOELINE ELIZABETH, b. 1926. James K. Baxter [1946 or 1947] Oil on pinex 71 X 55.5 cm. DONATION. FRANKLYN, F. [Sketches of the thermal areas and Wellington, ca.l9oo?] 18 pencil, each 23 X 28cm. (from sketchbook, now disbound). PURCHASE. FRISTROM, CLAUS EDWARD, 1856-1942. [American battleships in Auckland harbour] 1908. Gouache on board 43.5 x 63cm. PURCHASE.

gully, JOHN, 1819-1888. [Nelson from the east. 186-] Watercolour on card 40.6 x 50.8 cm. PURCHASE. H. P. Pahatanui —the fortress of Rangihaeata. 1823 [i.e. 1846?] Pencil, crayon & watercolour 17.9 X 25.4 cm. Signed & dated: H.P. 1823. But the fortress was not built until 1846 and was seized by British troops the same year. PURCHASE. HODGKINS, ISABEL JANE, 1867-1950. [Landscapes and flower studies, ca.lß9o?] 5 watercolour, 2 pencil, various sizes. DONATION: Mr G. A. H. Field, Waikanae.

HODGKINS, william MATHEW, 1833-1898. [Landscapes and portraits] 1811-1895. 5 watercolour, 5 pencil, 1 ink, 1 crayon, various sizes. Views include Mt Cerberus and Mitre Peak, a scene aboard S.S. Wakatipu, and a portrait of the Australian judge, Sir Redmond Barry. DONATION: Mr G. A. H. Field, Waikanae. [Sketchbook] 1895-1896. Ca. 75 pencil, ink, monotone wash & watercolour in album 18.5 X 11.5 cm. A number of the sketches are from an earlier period and were pasted in. Subjects include quick court-room scenes (on blotting paper), the gold-escort waggon, a Stewart Island trip, 1895, and Mark Twain’s visit to Dunedin, 1895. DONATION: Miss E. M. Pharazyn, Wellington.

JENKINS, E. C. G. A. Lichfield. Dr Selwyn, first Bishop of New Zealand, 1866. Pencil 30 x 24.7 cm. DONATION: Miss O. Englund, Whangarei. [JOHNSTON, MAJOR J. T.] [Auckland: looking across to Rangitoto. 186-?] Pencil & watercolour 31.5 X 48cm. [Cliffs along the Taranaki coast. 186-?] Watercolour 24.6 X 52cm. [Military camp at the mouth of the Patea River. 186-?] Watercolour 19 X 49.3 cm. [Paddle-steamer off the mouth of the Wanganui River. 186-?] Watercolour 17 x 49cm. [Redoubt on the Wanganui River. 186-?] Watercolour 24 X 52 cm. [Taranaki military encampment. 186-?] Watercolour 28.3 X 48cm. [View across Waitemata Harbour from the North Shore. 186-?] Watercolour 30.3 X 51.2 cm. DONATION: Mr Taylor, Surrey, England, per Mrs H. W. Tolan, Lower Hutt.

MacDIARMID, DOUGLAS KERR, b. 1922. [Collection of portraits] 1944-1954. Chiefly watercolour and ink, with some oil, crayon and pencil. Subjects include John Drawbridge, Stephen Flarding, and a self-portrait. DONATION. McQUEEN, CILLA. Ralph Hotere, Carey’s Bay, 1981. 3 pencil, various sizes. PURCHASE. miller, WILLIAM E. Lady Bowen, nee Georgina Markham. 1883. Pastel 60 x 45 cm.

Sir Charles Christopher Bowen, K.C.M.G. 1883. Pastel 61 X 46cm. DONATION: Miss C. H. Bowen, Bristol, England. [NORMAN, EDMUND] 1820-1875. Alford Station in February 1857. Pencil on blue paper 19.7 X 32cm. PURCHASE. PAGE, EVELYN (POLSON), b. 1899. [Portrait of James Cook] 1923. Pencil 30.4 x 21.4 cm. DONATION. PAUL, JANET ELAINE (WILKINSON), b. 1919. [Eve reading] 1980. Oil on board 54.3 X 36.4 cm. Portrait of Eve Page. PURCHASE. Hone Tuwhare, 1977 & 1980. Pencil & watercolour, and xerox with felt pen, various sizes. PURCHASE. Ormond Wilson, 1980. Pencil 60.6 x 43 cm. PURCHASE.

PAUL, JOANNA MARGARET, b. 1945. [Charles Brasch in his living room, 1972] Ink 49 x 32.7 cm. PURCHASE. PERKINS, CHRISTOPHER, 1891-1968. [Alan Reeve] 1944. Pastel & watercolour 37.4 X 29.1 cm. DONATION: Mrs E. Reeve, Woollahra, N.S.W., Australia. REEVE, ALAN, 1910-1962. [Collection of caricatures, scrapbooks, etc.] 1934-1958. Ca.4o items, including ink, ink & watercolour, & gouache sketches, photographs, and an album of newspaper clippings and catalogues documenting the career of this New Zealand-born portrait caricaturist, who worked in Australia, Europe and the U.S.A. from 1934, as an illustrator for Fortune, Vogue, the Irish Times, the London Illustrated, sketching internationally known personalities, including Ezra Pound, Eamon de Valera, Cecil Beaton. DONATION: Mrs E. Reeve, Woollahra, N.S.W., Australia.

ROBLEY, HORATIO GORDON, 1840-1930. [Postcards. 189-?] 13 monotone wash, 8 photographs, each 8.7 x 13.9 cm. ‘Do-it-yourself postcards, showing tikis, Maori carvings, portraits of Maoris. DONATION: Dr T. R. F. Raw, Norwich, England. SCHOON, THEO, b. 1915. Portrait of Mac Diarmid [194-?] Crayon & wash 55 X 37.4 cm. DONATION: Mr D. K. Mac Diarmid, Paris, France. STRAUCHON, JOHN, 1848-1934. [Surveying sketches from South Island journeys, ca. 1870] 2 monotone wash, 3 watercolours, various sizes. DONATION: Miss K. Strauchon, Wellington. TEMPLE, EDWYN FREDERICK, 1835-1921. Picton Bay. Township and Q. Charlotte’s Sound . . . 1870. Watercolour 38.2 X 68.7 cm. PURCHASE.

TERRY, EDWARD LIONEL, 1867-1952. This man is mad. Mammon Rex [19 —J Graphite & coloured pencil 8.7 X 6cm. Self-portrait with handwritten poem on verso, ‘The Prisoned Prophet to his Persecutors’. DONATION: Mr C. Ballard, Christchurch. [warre, HENRY JAMES] 1819-1898. Mount Egmont [1864?] Watercolour 23 X 32 cm. The native pah at Waiter a [sic] from the bar. March 9, 1861. Watercolour 17.7 x 25.5 cm. PURCHASE. WHITE, ANNA LOIS, b. 1903. [Self-portrait. 1932-1935] Oil on board 50.5 X 40.5 cm. PURCHASE. [WILSON, HELEN ANNE (SIMPSON)] 1794?—1871. The back view of Peter’s house, Wanganui [1843?] Ink 13 X 27cm.

Nguruawahia, now called Queenstown [lB6-?] Ink 13 X 20 cm. Shows Ngaruawahia, known as Newcastle, not Queenstown, in the 1860’s. Peter’s house, Wanganui, New Zealand [1843?] Ink 7.8 X 13cm. PURCHASE. WINCHESTER, IRIS MAUDE (PARK), b. 1920. Peter Irwin Cape, painted at Milford, Auckland, summer 1948. Oil on canvas 50.9 x 30.8 cm. DONATION.