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Below is a selection of our recent acquisitions. For acquisitions by The Chartwell Trust click here.
Until recently this portrait of Johanna Steiger had remained in the care of continuing generations of Johanna Steiger's family. Individual portraits of daughters are rare, but Johanna's finery indicates that she was a much-loved little girl.
This is a photographic portrait of Ihaka Whanga, a kaumatua (elder) from Ngati Kahungunu, an iwi (tribe) from the Hawkes Bay region.. The image was copied by Gottfried Lindauer for his portrait of the Māori chief held in the Gallery's collection (1915/2/14).
W.D. Hammond's 1989 expedition to New Zealand's sub -Antarctic Auckland Islands was a revelation that transformed the future of his painting. He later noted that landing on Enderby Island, with its remains of a 19th century whaling station was like arriving at a miraculous 'birdland'.
This work was first seen in Liquid Sea at Sydney's Museum of Contemporary Art, then at Sue Crockford's gallery in Auckland and finally at Waikato Museum of Art and History with the magnificent embellishment of over 101 baby eke (common reef octopus).
These small works by Robert Hood, one of which is pictured, come from a long tradition of collecting found objects and incorporating them into works of art.
In these two paintings, one of which is pictured, Saskia Leek considers the traditions of cubist still life through the lens of the twenty first century.
Guido Reni's painting, upon which this print is based, was originally painted for the Church of San Prospero in Reggio Emilia, Northern Italy, for the altar of the Arte de' Calzolari (Shoemakers' guild).
Sydney Parkinson, was one of two artists on board James Cook's first voyage to the Pacific (1768-1771). A specialist botanical artist, Parkinson was called upon to draw a much broader range of subjects following the death of the other artist on board.
In 1844, aged 22, George French Angas travelled throughout the North Island, including the largely unexplored interior, and the top of the South Island making sketches and writing of his travels in a journal.
Venus From Hell was painted over several months in the presence of a life model, better known as Nicky Watson. A local Auckland celebrity, Watson is best known for her notorious marriage and divorce from businessperson Eric Watson.
John Webber made countless watercolours, pen and ink sketches and drawings on James Cook's third voyage to the Pacific (1776-80).