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Exhibition Catalogues

Exhibition Catalogues

Exhibitions Catalogues

View and download pdfs of exhibition catalogues from as early as 1954.

1961 Mina Arndt (PDF, 327.81KB)
Mina Arndt : 1885-1926 : Auckland City Art Gallery, October 1961. 3 pages. * Introductory essay. * Catalogue lists 32 works.
1961 Contemporary New Zealand painting (PDF, 697.1KB)
Contemporary New Zealand painting. Auckland City Art Gallery, November 1961. 4 pages. * Foreword by P.A. Tomory. * Catalogue lists 65 works.
1961 Albrecht Durer (PDF, 1,308.28KB)
Albrecht Durer; forty engravings and woodcuts : Auckland City Art Gallery, November 1961. 15 pages. * Foreword by P.A. Tomory, introductory essay by W.S. Auburn. * Brief chronology 1471 - 1528. 40 works listed, each with notes. * Includes list of lenders.
1962 19th and 20th century French prints (PDF, 3,036.51KB)
19th and 20th century French prints. Auckland City Art Gallery, March 1962. 18 pages. * Catalogue lists the 81 accessions of 19th and 20th century French prints to the collection of the Auckland City Art Gallery between 1953 and 1961/62. * Brief biographies of each artist precede their listed works.
1962 Six New Zealand expatriates (PDF, 1,814.96KB)
Six New Zealand expatriates : Grace Joel, Rhona Haszard, Frances Hodgkins, Francis McCracken, Raymond McIntyre, Owen Merton : The Auckland City Art Gallery, April 1962. 24 pages. * Introductory essay and catalogue notes written by Colin McCahon. * Catalogue lists 57 works and includes biographical essays on each of the artists.
1962 British taste in the nineteenth century (PDF, 3,004.99KB)
British taste in the nineteenth century : Auckland City Art Gallery, May 1962. 20 pages. * Introductory essay by Peter Tomory. * 72 works listed, each with notes. * Includes list of lenders and black and white illustrations of 10 of the works.
1962 Art in Italy, 1500 to 1800 (PDF, 4,814.95KB)
Art in Italy, 1500 to 1800 : paintings, drawings, and engravings from New Zealand collections : the Auckland City Art Gallery, September 1962. 27 pages. * Exhibition of 114 paintings, drawings and prints (listed in catalogue) by Italian artists or those working in Italy between 1500 and 1800, selected from New Zealand public and private sources. * Catalogue notes written by Peter Tomory with brief biographical information on artists as well as notes on some individual works of art.
1962 Visionary architecture (PDF, 3,408.27KB)
Visionary architecture, October 1962. 22 pages. * Exhibition sponsored by the Museum of Modern Art and arranged by Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland. * Essays by contributors to the symposium held at the time of the exhibition at the Auckland City Art Gallery. * Small number of black and white line drawings.
1962 Contemporary New Zealand painting and sculpture (PDF, 603.03KB)
Contemporary New Zealand painting and sculpture 1962. Auckland City Art Gallery, November 1962. 3 pages. * Catalogue of an exhibition shown in Auckland as a major part of a November season of New Zealand arts, sponsored by the Auckland Art Gallery. * Foreword by P.A Tomory. * Lists 120 works.
1963 A retrospective exhibition: M.T. Woollaston, Colin McCahon (PDF, 2,931.84KB)
A retrospective exhibition : M.T. Woollaston, Colin McCahon. Auckland City Art Gallery, May 1963. 24 pages. * The first large-scale exhibition of work by painters born, trained and domiciled in New Zealand. * Auckland Festival exhibition of work by Toss Woollaston and Colin McCahon.