On the 3rd Day of Christmas

Wednesday 16 December 2009
Sarah Eades

On the third day of Christmas
my true love gave to me
Three flax kits / 3 French hens

the nominations are:

Three Flax kits:

Gottfried Lindauer, Maoris Plaiting Flax Baskets, 1903, oil on canvas
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, gift of Mr H E Partridge, 1915

Three french hens (the most nominations so far - vote now either by emailing feedback@aucklandartgallery.govt.nz, or comment below)

Edwin Alexander, Old Age, watercolour
Mackelvie Trust Collection, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki

William Hemsley, Feeding the Chicks, oil on canvas,
Mackelvie Trust Collection, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, gift of James Tannock Mackelvie, 1884

(these others are still in copyright so here is the link)
Spot the lovely tenuous links

Percy Thomas, The Doves, etchingAuckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, gift of Mrs Ada Chapman Taylor, 1930

.....and a pukeko in a ponga Tree

Percy Bagnall, Pukeko, 1919, colour lithographAuckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, transferred from the Auckland Public Library, 1932


See you tomorrow!