Tony Green Archive
Archive Collection Detail
Dr Tony Green (b 1936) is an art writer, academic, artist and poet. He gained an under-graduate degree in English Literature from Cambridge and completed a PhD at the University of Edinburgh with a thesis on Nicholas Poussin. Green was the first Professor of Art History at the University of Auckland and held the role of Head of Department from 1969-1992. From 2005 on he has written two art/literature blogs, Poussin's Humour and Accumulations. Highlights of the archive include correspondence with NZ artists and art historians; dealer and public gallery directors; and American concrete poets as well as NZ artist files and exhibition catalogues. In addition there are many examples of Green's published art writing and his notebooks covering the NZ art scene in the 1970s and 80s. In summary the archive consists of: art catalogues; artist files; ephemera; correspondence;unpublished manuscript material; art criticism and reviews; notebooks; albums of postcards; photos; poetry listserve printouts and an artwork by Bruce Barber, Dialogue,1973
- Title
- Tony Green Archive
- Artists
- Tony Green, Gretchen Albrecht, Jim Allen, Billy Apple®, Stephen Bambury, Bruce Barber, Jim Barr and Mary Barr, Luit Bieringa, Roger Blackley
- Production Date
- 1950-2011
- Linear meters
- 1.50
- Finding aids
- Folder Level Listing
- Credit Line
- E H McCormick Research Library, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, gift of Tony Green, 2011
- Accession No
- RC2011/15
- Restriction type
- Restricted Access
- Copyright
- Copying restrictions apply
