Archive
May Smith Archive
Archive Collection Detail
May Smith (1906-1988) was born in India and arrived in New Zealand with her family in 1921. She first met Frances Hodgkins at Ibiza in 1933 and her example persuaded Smith to take up painting. These documents consist of artwork and correspondence, photographs, sketchbooks, newspaper clippings, audiotapes, diaries, notes, colour slides and ephemera. There are three boxes and separate individual works of art.
- Title
- May Smith Archive
- Artists
- May Smith
- Production Date
- 1900-1988
- Linear meters
- 1.84
- Finding aids
- Folder Level Listing
- Credit Line
- E H McCormick Research Library, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, gift of May Smith Estate, 1991
- Accession No
- RC2002/3
- Restriction type
- Restricted Access
- Copyright
- Copying restrictions apply
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Items In This Collection
![Untitled [sketch for mural]](https://artgallery-collection-api.cdn.aucklandunlimited.com/records/images/medium/331/c09ff3d8d56185dd416d5ae57435dda4353ac2c5.jpg)
Untitled [sketch for mural]
Date unknown
Archive Item
![Untitled [sketch for mural]](https://artgallery-collection-api.cdn.aucklandunlimited.com/records/images/medium/332/e4de619c4e2e9b39fbbc13aa5908be10b60e2561.jpg)
Untitled [sketch for mural]
Date unknown
Archive Item
![Hamilton Old and New [sketch for mural]](https://artgallery-collection-api.cdn.aucklandunlimited.com/records/images/medium/333/28134a22d272d4426709e7aca0d93d5b647de1ee.jpg)
Hamilton Old and New [sketch for mural]
Date unknown
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![The Pub [sketch for mural]](https://artgallery-collection-api.cdn.aucklandunlimited.com/records/images/medium/334/51c3dbffe686b4a6be052be9dcc2bbe1b6ccd66f.jpg)
The Pub [sketch for mural]
Date unknown
Archive Item