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Painting Nature
Painting Nature

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Painting Nature

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Property of a Gentleman
Property of a Gentleman

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Property of a Gentleman

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Manpower: Myths of Masculinity
Manpower: Myths of Masculinity

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Manpower: Myths of Masculinity

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Temples for the Gods
Temples for the Gods

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Temples for the Gods

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Te Hei Tiki
Te Hei Tiki

$5 - $7

Te Hei Tiki

$5 - $7

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My Art Collectors Series launch
My Art Collectors Series launch

2.30–4pm

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The My Art Collectors Series celebrates collecting art and creates a platform to hear from collectors, curators and artists with the aim of inspiring the art lovers and collectors of today and tomorrow.  

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My Art Collector Series: Caring for Your Collection
My Art Collector Series: Caring for Your Collection

5.45–7pm

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Preventive conservation isn't just for museums – it’s for all collectors.

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My Art Collector Series: Auckland Art Fair VIP visit
My Art Collector Series: Auckland Art Fair VIP visit

2–4.30pm

$245 for Members; $295 for non-Members (incl one year membership) Buy tickets

Want to know what’s hot in contemporary art right now? Join us for a bespoke, curated visit to the Auckland Art Fair on the VIP Preview day

My Art Collector Series: Auckland Art Fair VIP visit

2–4.30pm

$245 for Members; $295 for non-Members (incl one year membership) Buy tickets

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My Art Collectors Series: K Road and Arch Hill Gallery Tour 1
My Art Collectors Series: K Road and Arch Hill Gallery Tour 1

11.30–1pm

Members $10, non-Members $60 (incl one-year membership) Buy tickets

Join art writer and curator Francis McWhannell as he takes you on a guided tour of his selection of dealer galleries around Karangahape Road and Arch Hill. 

My Art Collectors Series: K Road and Arch Hill Gallery Tour 1

11.30–1pm

Members $10, non-Members $60 (incl one-year membership) Buy tickets

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My Art Collector Series: Collecting Art – An Insider’s View
My Art Collector Series: Collecting Art – An Insider’s View

5.45–7pm

FREE Members-only

Associate Professor Linda Tyler chairs a panel of art pundits, who will give you an insider’s view to collecting art.

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SOLD OUT My Art Collectors Series: K Road and Arch Hill Gallery Tour 3
SOLD OUT My Art Collectors Series: K Road and Arch Hill Gallery Tour 3

11.30–1pm

Members $10, non-Members $60 (incl one-year membership)

Please note that this event is sold out.

Join art writer and curator Francis McWhannell as he takes you on a guided tour of his selection of dealer galleries around Karangahape Road and Arch Hill. 

SOLD OUT My Art Collectors Series: K Road and Arch Hill Gallery Tour 3

11.30–1pm

Members $10, non-Members $60 (incl one-year membership)

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SOLD OUT My Art Collectors Series: K Road and Arch Hill Gallery Tour 2
SOLD OUT My Art Collectors Series: K Road and Arch Hill Gallery Tour 2

11.30–1pm

Members $10, non-Members $60 (incl one-year membership)

Please note that this event is sold out.

Join art writer and curator Francis McWhannell as he takes you on a guided tour of his selection of dealer galleries around Karangahape Road and Arch Hill. 

SOLD OUT My Art Collectors Series: K Road and Arch Hill Gallery Tour 2

11.30–1pm

Members $10, non-Members $60 (incl one-year membership)

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Art Lovers' Films: The Price of Everything
Art Lovers' Films: The Price of Everything

6pm

Members $26, General admission $28 Buy tickets

Art Lovers’ Film presents The Price of Everything (2018), a funny, insightful and at times jaw-dropping documentary about the current contemporary art market

Art Lovers' Films: The Price of Everything

6pm

Members $26, General admission $28 Buy tickets

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Skadi Heckmueller: Private collections in Australia
Skadi Heckmueller: Private collections in Australia

11am

Free for Members

Skadi Heckmueller, author of Private: A guide to personal art collections in Australia and New Zealand, will reveal some of Australasia’s most intriguing private contemporary art collections.

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Rob Gardiner in conversation with Natasha Conland
Rob Gardiner in conversation with Natasha Conland

3pm

Free

Join Chartwell Trust founder Rob Gardiner in conversation with Curator, Contemporary Art, Natasha Conland as they discuss the current exhibition Shout Whisper Wail!

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POSTPONED Honestly Speaking: Speaking Honestly
POSTPONED Honestly Speaking: Speaking Honestly

6–8pm

Members and U35* $20, non-Members $30 (*U35 – 35 years and under) Book now

A poet, a performance artist and an art critic walk into an exhibition - it's Carrie Rudzinski, Sarita Das and Lucinda Bennett speaking honestly. These three contemporary voices provide fresh interpretation as they untangle, interrogate and vivify the works in our new exhibition Honestly Speaking: the Word, the Body and the Internet. With drinks and exclusive after-hours viewing, this night of activation is not to be missed.

POSTPONED Honestly Speaking: Speaking Honestly

6–8pm

Members and U35* $20, non-Members $30 (*U35 – 35 years and under) Book now

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A conversation about Gilbert & George
A conversation about Gilbert & George

12 - 1pm

Free - bookings essential Book now

A conversation about Gilbert & George

12 - 1pm

Free - bookings essential Book now

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Manpower Lectures – #4 Queer and Now (online)
Manpower Lectures – #4 Queer and Now (online)

6—7pm

Members $100, Non-Members $190, Students $80 Book now

What's queer about long-nineteenth-century British art now? Answering this question, Edwards address two entirely different examples: Henry Hugh Armstead’s mid-Victorian bronze statuette ‘Satan dismayed’ otherwise known as ‘Saint Michael and the Serpent’ (1852) and Henry Scott Tuke’s 1924 oil painting, ‘Companions’. Both artists remain marginalised, and have proven difficult to canonise for different reasons: Armstead as a predominantly decorative artist in a canon still primarily oriented towards the two-dimensional and the category of fine art, and Tuke because of the open secret of the pederastic character of his work, at a moment in which childhood sexual abuse remains one of the key cultural issues of our time. What might we learn from returning to think about both?

This lecture is a pre-recorded lecture that will be made available to ticketholders to watch in their own time. This lecture is the fourth in a four-part series, Manpower Lectures: Antiquity, aesthetes and athleticism.

Manpower Lectures – #4 Queer and Now (online)

6—7pm

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Manpower Lectures – #2 Ancient Greek Male Identity and the Modern World
Manpower Lectures – #2 Ancient Greek Male Identity and the Modern World

6—7pm

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Drawing on heroes of classical mythology, the Iliad, Greek tragedy and their modern adaptations, Dr Anastasia Bakogianni explores what it meant to be a man in the ancient Greek world. Researching expectations placed upon men and the warrior ethos, she tracks its impact throughout the centuries and on the modern concept of masculinity.  This lecture is the second in a four-part series, Manpower Lectures: Antiquity, aesthetes and athleticism.

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Manpower Lectures – #1 Why Oscar Wilde Mattered in Auckland
Manpower Lectures – #1 Why Oscar Wilde Mattered in Auckland

6—7pm

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Senior Curator of International Art, Dr Sophie Matthiesson explores some of the motivations behind the collecting and public display of male bodies in the early years of the Auckland Art Gallery (founded 1888) and considers the appeal and meaning of such frankly sensual images for their Victorian-era benefactors who purchased them. The notorious 1895 London trial and imprisonment of Irish poet and playwright Oscar Wilde for homosexuality suddenly altered consciousness across the British Empire. It impacts can be seen, she argues, in public debates about masculinity in New Zealand, and in institutional attitudes to the male nude in art in the following decades.

This lecture is the first in a four-part series, Manpower Lectures: Antiquity, aesthetes and athleticism.

Manpower Lectures – #1 Why Oscar Wilde Mattered in Auckland

6—7pm

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Manpower Lectures – #3 The New Mail Order
Manpower Lectures – #3 The New Mail Order

6—7pm

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When Eugen Sandow, the father of modern bodybuilding, toured New Zealand in the summer of 1902-03, his aim was to reshape the nation. Long before the likes of Charles Atlas peddled mail order muscle programmes, the Sandow System was embraced by men throughout New Zealand. Eager to flex and pose and dream of a new male order, these men joined local gyms, entered bodybuilding contests, and even strutted their stuff in local beauty competitions. In this lecture, Dr Caroline Daley reveals the bodies of early twentieth century men and questions whether our fixation with rugby players, farmers and soldiers means we’re missing the pleasure that comes from gazing upon the world’s most perfectly developed man and his local acolytes.

This lecture is the third in a four-part series, Manpower Lectures: Antiquity, aesthetes and athleticism. 

Manpower Lectures – #3 The New Mail Order

6—7pm

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Artworks

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Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel
Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel

Wenceslaus Hollar Anthony van Dyck

Production date
1639
Medium
etching
Size (h x w)
227 x 190 mm
Credit line
Mackelvie Trust Collection, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, bequest of Dr Walter Auburn, 1982
Accession no
M1982/1/3/200
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The Butterfly Collector
The Butterfly Collector

Dwight Sturges

Production date
1894-1940
Medium
etching and drypoint
Size (h x w)
184 x 143 mm
Credit line
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, purchased 1955
Accession no
1955/51/1
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Woodland Scene
Woodland Scene

Studio of Hobbema Meindert Hobbema

Production date
17th century
Medium
oil on canvas
Size (h x w)
741 x 922 x 45 mm
Credit line
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, purchased 2015
Accession no
2015/23
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Barr Photo Archive of Artists and Studios
Barr Photo Archive of Artists and Studios

Jim Barr and Mary Barr

Production date
1972-2018
Credit line
E H McCormick Research Library, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, gift of Jim Barr and Mary Barr, 2018
Accession no
RC2020/3
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Antique ancient altar with surrounding ruins
Antique ancient altar with surrounding ruins

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Production date
circa 1743
Medium
etching, four states with burin work
Size (h x w)
270 x 375 mm
Credit line
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
Accession no
U/169
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Barr Archive on et al.
Barr Archive on et al.

Jim Barr and Mary Barr

Production date
1902-2004
Credit line
E H McCormick Research Library, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, gift of Jim Barr and Mary Barr, 2018
Accession no
RC2020/4
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Christ bearing the Cross
Christ bearing the Cross

Wilhelm de Haen Albrecht Dürer

Production date
17th century?
Medium
engraving
Size (h x w)
114 x 73 mm
Credit line
Mackelvie Trust Collection, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
Accession no
M1885/90/1/1
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Christ bearing the Cross
Christ bearing the Cross

Wilhelm de Haen Albrecht Dürer

Production date
17th century?
Medium
engraving
Size (h x w)
114 x 73 mm
Credit line
Mackelvie Trust Collection, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
Accession no
M1885/90/1/2
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Le Chapeau épinglé (Pinning the hat)
Le Chapeau épinglé (Pinning the hat)

Auguste Renoir

Production date
1893
Medium
etching and drypoint
Size (h x w)
133 x 94 mm
Credit line
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, purchased 1974
Accession no
1974/3/2
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Jim and Mary Barr 1978
Jim and Mary Barr 1978

Marti Friedlander

Production date
2000
Medium
gelatin silver print, toned with gold
Size (h x w)
479 x 322 mm
Credit line
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, gift of Marti Friedlander, with assistance from the Elise Mourant Bequest, 2001
Accession no
2000/28/155
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Veneration of The Holy Coat of Trier, Translation of the Relics of Saint Leopold
Veneration of The Holy Coat of Trier, Translation of the Relics of Saint Leopold

Albrecht Dürer

Production date
circa 1512
Medium
woodcut
Size (h x w)
112 x 159 mm
Credit line
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, purchased 1955
Accession no
1955/42/5
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Felix Kelly Archive
Felix Kelly Archive

Don Bassett Felix Kelly

Production date
circa 1916-2016
Credit line
E H McCormick Research Library, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, gift of Don Bassett, 2022
Accession no
RC2022/3
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Cornwall Park
Cornwall Park

H Senior John Haley

Production date
circa 1920
Medium
colour aquatint
Size (h x w)
112 x 156 mm
Credit line
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, purchased 1930
Accession no
1930/21
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Seated Nude in Profile
Seated Nude in Profile

Walter Sickert

Production date
circa 1910-circa 1914
Medium
pencil
Size (h x w)
385 x 280 mm
Credit line
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, purchased 1955
Accession no
1955/2/5
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A Village fair (Village festival in honour of Saint Hubert and Saint Anthony)
A Village fair (Village festival in honour of Saint Hubert and Saint Anthony)

Pieter Brueghel the Younger

Production date
Unknown
Medium
oil on panel
Size (h x w)
1118 x 1651 mm
Credit line
Mackelvie Trust Collection, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, purchased 1961
Accession no
M1961/1
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Guzzle
Guzzle

Charles Jacque

Production date
1849
Medium
etching
Size (h x w)
128 x 152 mm
Credit line
Mackelvie Trust Collection, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
Accession no
M1885/13
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Entree de M. de Macey
Entree de M. de Macey

Jacques Callot

Production date
1627
Medium
etching
Size (h x w)
145 x 220 mm
Credit line
Mackelvie Trust Collection, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, bequest of Dr Walter Auburn, 1982
Accession no
M1982/1/2/211
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Three Heads of Women, one asleep
Three Heads of Women, one asleep

Rembrandt van Rijn

Production date
1637
Medium
etching
Size (h x w)
127 x 90 mm
Credit line
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, purchased 1961
Accession no
1961/4/4
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Entree de MM. de Vroncourt, Tyllon et Marimont
Entree de MM. de Vroncourt, Tyllon et Marimont

Jacques Callot

Production date
1627
Medium
etching
Size (h x w)
147 x 220 mm
Credit line
Mackelvie Trust Collection, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, bequest of Dr Walter Auburn, 1982
Accession no
M1982/1/2/212
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Entree du duc Charles IV
Entree du duc Charles IV

Jacques Callot

Production date
1627
Medium
etching
Size (h x w)
150 x 240 mm
Credit line
Mackelvie Trust Collection, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, bequest of Dr Walter Auburn, 1982
Accession no
M1982/1/2/216
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Entree du Prince de Pfaltzbourg.
Entree du Prince de Pfaltzbourg.

Jacques Callot

Production date
1627
Medium
etching
Size (h x w)
152 x 240 mm
Credit line
Mackelvie Trust Collection, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, bequest of Dr Walter Auburn, 1982
Accession no
M1982/1/2/210
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Design for A Cartouche and Head Studies
Design for A Cartouche and Head Studies

Agostino Carracci

Production date
16th century
Medium
pen, ink and chalk on paper
Size (h x w)
268 x 172 mm
Credit line
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, purchased 1962
Accession no
1962/26/1
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Entree de M. de Brionne
Entree de M. de Brionne

Jacques Callot

Production date
1627
Medium
etching
Size (h x w)
153 x 240 mm
Credit line
Mackelvie Trust Collection, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, bequest of Dr Walter Auburn, 1982
Accession no
M1982/1/2/214
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Peasant Regarding a Dish of Eggs
Peasant Regarding a Dish of Eggs

David Teniers the Younger

Production date
1625-1690
Medium
etching
Size (h x w)
119 x 92 mm
Credit line
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, purchased 1955
Accession no
1955/42/17
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L'Empire c'est la paix.. [The Empire means peace.].
L'Empire c'est la paix.. [The Empire means peace.].

Honoré Daumier

Production date
1871
Medium
lithograph
Size (h x w)
229 x 185 mm
Credit line
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, purchased 1981
Accession no
1981/50/5
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Entree de Monseigneur Henry de Lorraine
Entree de Monseigneur Henry de Lorraine

Jacques Callot

Production date
1627
Medium
etching
Size (h x w)
152 x 240 mm
Credit line
Mackelvie Trust Collection, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, bequest of Dr Walter Auburn, 1982
Accession no
M1982/1/2/215
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Peasant Settling his Debt
Peasant Settling his Debt

Adriaen van Ostade

Production date
circa 1650-circa 1653
Medium
etching
Size (h x w)
102 x 85 mm
Credit line
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, purchased 1981
Accession no
1981/50/105
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Oceanie, Ilots a Uven, Wallis (Uvea: Loyalty Islands)
Oceanie, Ilots a Uven, Wallis (Uvea: Loyalty Islands)

Charles Meryon

Production date
1863
Medium
etching
Size (h x w)
159 x 346 mm
Credit line
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, purchased 1964
Accession no
1964/1/4
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Baigneuse Assise
Baigneuse Assise

Auguste Renoir

Production date
circa 1897
Medium
etching
Size (h x w)
220 x 137 mm
Credit line
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, purchased 1954
Accession no
1954/7/5
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Elizabeth Castle, Jersey
Elizabeth Castle, Jersey

Wenceslaus Hollar

Production date
1650-1651
Medium
etching
Size (h x w)
58 x 131 mm
Credit line
Mackelvie Trust Collection, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, bequest of Dr Walter Auburn, 1982
Accession no
M1982/1/3/97
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Nouvelle Zelande, Presq'ile de Banks
Nouvelle Zelande, Presq'ile de Banks

Charles Meryon

Production date
1863
Medium
etching
Size (h x w)
108 x 300 mm
Credit line
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, purchased 1964
Accession no
1964/1/3
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Portrait of a man. [verso: Self Portrait].
Portrait of a man. [verso: Self Portrait].

Ottavio Leoni

Production date
1618-1630
Medium
pen and brown ink [etching (verso)]
Size (h x w)
131 x 100 mm
Credit line
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, purchased 1957
Accession no
1957/23/2
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The Coast Near Plymouth
The Coast Near Plymouth

Wenceslaus Hollar

Production date
1676
Medium
etching
Size (h x w)
66 x 141 mm
Credit line
Mackelvie Trust Collection, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, bequest of Dr Walter Auburn, 1982
Accession no
M1982/1/3/105
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Dover Castle
Dover Castle

Wenceslaus Hollar

Production date
1652-1677
Medium
etching
Size (h x w)
58 x 132 mm
Credit line
Mackelvie Trust Collection, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, bequest of Dr Walter Auburn, 1982
Accession no
M1982/1/3/102
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Barr Archive on et al.
Barr Archive on et al.
Production date
1902-2004
Credit line
E H McCormick Research Library, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, gift of Jim Barr and Mary Barr, 2018
Accession no
RC2020/4
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Barr Photo Archive of Artists and Studios
Barr Photo Archive of Artists and Studios
Production date
1972-2018
Credit line
E H McCormick Research Library, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, gift of Jim Barr and Mary Barr, 2018
Accession no
RC2020/3
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Felix Kelly Archive
Felix Kelly Archive
Production date
circa 1916-2016
Credit line
E H McCormick Research Library, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, gift of Don Bassett, 2022
Accession no
RC2022/3

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