NZ Art & Photography

The 170 drawings, prints, paintings and photographs illustrated all reflect New Zealand pioneer life. Mostly the work of enthusiastic amateurs the works have a veracity that is unusual as well as engaging. The pictures are accompanied by an interesting themed text.

Bateman Publishing, Auckland, 2009. Hardback with dust jacket. 144 pages. NEW.

Charles Goldie (1870-1947) is probably New Zealand's best known artist. His portaits of Maori are now seen as iconic. In the beginning years of the twentieth century Goldie was Auckland's leading painter. Over one hundred painting are reproduced in full colour. First published in 1997 this is the 2006 reprint.

Auckland Art Gallery, 2006. Hardback with dust jacket. 200 pages. NEW.

Traces the growth of a young country in a comprehensive portfolio of carefully selected paintings, drawings and prints, some never reproduced before. The images are accompanied by appropriate extracts from contemporary writing, both published and unpublished.

David Bateman, Auckland, 1988. Hardback with dust jacket. 192 pages. SECONDHAND

John Gully 1819-1888 was a significant painter of New Zealand's colonial landscape. Working in the Nelson Survey Office and association with Julius Von Haast, gave him access to sketches of newly surveyed lands. Gully's Romantic style landscapes brought him immediate recognition both at home and abroad. Some slight foxing. Very large book, please inquire about postage before ordering.

Millwood. Hardback with dust-jacket. Illustrated. 182 Pages. SECONDHAND

Sharp played a leading role in Auckland's art culture of the 1870s and 1880s. He was one of the most distinguished watercolourists of the colonial period, yet something of an enigma, this is his life and art.

David Bateman, Auckland, 1992. Softback. 144 pages. SECONDHAND

Blomfield is remembered chiefly for his paintings of the Pink and White Terraces before they were destroyed, but he was also an avid explorer and travelled throughout the country and left many beautiful paintings of the landscape as he found it over the years 1862 to 1926.

Hodder & Stoughton Ltd., Auckland, 1979. Hardback with dust jacket. 188 pages. SECONDHAND

The first comprehensive study of the subject this book traces the lives and careers of over seventy New Zealand women artists.

Reed Methuen Ltd., Auckland, 1986. Hardback with dust jacket. 246 pages. SECONDHAND

Over 100 large illustrations, 8 in full colour. Drama in the four centres, new section on drawings, enlarged verse section. Chips and silverfish nibbles to DJ. 1250 copies printed.

H.H. Tombs Ltd., Wellington, 1947. Hardback with dust jacket. 170 pages. SECONDHAND

Over 100 pages of paintings and drawings, six origional wood and linocuts and six artists write about their work. 1400 copies printed.

The Wingfield Press (H.H. Tombs Ltd.), Wellington, 1948. Hardback with dust jacket. 171 pages. SECONDHAND

Twenty three printmakers feature in this comprehensive survey of the art at this time in the evolution of New Zealand art. Fully illustrated. Signed by the author.

Collins NZ Ltd., Auckland, 1974. Hardback with dust jacket. 232 pages. SECONDHAND

A scholarly and well written account of the career of "one of the most remarkable women painters of our country". Hodgkins 1869-1947 had a long and venturesome life and was described as a master colourist. Tipped in plates.

Auckland University Press, 1981. Hardback with dust jacket. 159 pages. SECONDHAND

This book tells the story of the work of New Zealand's Official War Artists, in both the European and Pacific theatres of operations. It features the work of Peter McIntyre, Austen Deans, Allan Barns-Graham, Russell Clark and John McIndoe.

Softback. 224 pages. NEW.

Mervyn Taylor was the finest of New Zealand wood engravers and applied his craft to local subjects with dramatic effect. The book was printed directly from the artist's wood blocks and contains 22 prints. Because of paper shortages the edition was limited. Excellent condition.

Caxton Press, Christchurch, 1946. Hardback with dust jacket. Unpaginated. SECONDHAND 

Christchurch artist W.A. Sutton was one of New Zealand's most outstanding landscape painters and this is the first full length monograph on his work to be published. Colour illustrations.

Hazard Press, Christchurch. Hardback with dust jacket. 1994. 96 pages. SECONDHAND

Well known Canterbury painter Bill Sutton produced these exquisite watercolours on a QEII Arts Council of NZ fellowship to Italy in 1974. This beautiful large format volume contains twenty four fine colour reproductions of Italian subjects.

Whitcoulls Publishers for Canterbury University, Christchurch, 1975. Hardback with dust jacket. SECONDHAND

A celebration of nearly fifty years of work by Smither whose painting has been a major strand in the quest for identity that preoccupied the post war generations of New Zealander's. Full colour throughout.

Ron Sang Publications, Auckland, 2004. Hardback with dust jacket. 275 pages. AS NEW

The story of Frizell's life in art. How he found his way through, got lost and found his way again. A treasure trove of popular culture, art, kiwiana and biography. Full colour throughout.

Godwit Random House, Auckland, 2009. Hard back, no dust jacket as issued. 319 pages. AS NEW

Exhibition catalogue that retospectivly surveys the life and work of the artist who died in 1990. Includes essays by a number of different scholars and an illustrated list of works.

City Gallery, Wellington, 1994. Softback. 192 pages. SECONDHAND

A threeway collaboration this book features over 50 of Sydney's finest paintings of the Central Otago region, some of which are now considered national icons. The paintings are complemented by Turner's poetry and several stories by Marshall. First published in 1995, this edition was published in 2010.

Longacre Books, Auckland, 2010. Hardback with dust jacket. 159 pages. NEW

This is a collection of 100 paintings by 67 New Zealand artists, both renowned and unfamiliar It is a complete survey beginning with early settler gardens and concluding with some of the best loved gardens of today. Published 2008.

Godwit Random House, Auckland. Hardback with dust jacket. 272 pages. NEW.

The classic and ground breaking account of photography in New Zeakland, includes short essays on all the important early photographers. Geographical and alphabetical lists make it essential reference for all interested in NZ photography. Published 1971.

John McIndoe, Dunedin. Hardback with dust jacket. 196 pages. SECONDHAND

Jack Adamson grew up in South Canterbury almost at the foot of the Alps and spent years working at the Hermitage at Mount Cook during the intitial pioneer age of mountaineering there. He was associated with the exploits of Green, Fitzgerald, Zurbriggen, Mannering, Dixon, Fyfe and Du Faur when they and others pioneered all the routes and peaks of the Mount Cook region. These are his interesting and engaging photographs from that exciting and unique time in New Zealand alpine history.

South Canterbury Museum, Timaru, 2010. Hardback. 180 pages. NEW.  

The work and life of professional photographer Havelock Williams who spent 50 years in Cantabury taking news and documentary photographs. 

Hazard Press, Christchurch, 2003. Softback. 232 pages, illustrated. NEW.

Compiled from images collected between 1977 and 1983 this is the early colour work of the country's best known, and well loved, photographer. All the photographs are powerful and classic examples of the New Zealand the photographer loved. First published in 1984 this is the 2004 reprint.

Saint Publishing, Auckland, 1984. Softback. 109 pages. NEW

A collection of contemporay photographs of places in the South Island that have particular cultural significance to the indigenous Maori tribes of Te Wai Pounamu.         "Written and visual statements on a beloved land richly scarred by memory"

Tandem Press, Auckland, 1993. Softback. Unpaginated. SECONDHAND

An in-depth insight into the 45 year photographic journey of by one of New Zealand's most persistent observers, it comprises a gallery of Westra's most revealing and challenging documentary images. Westra is especially well known for her work amoungst the Maori of the North Island.

Blair Wakefield Exhibitions, Wellington, 2004. Hardback with dust jacket. 224 pages. AS NEW

Alan Miller New Zealand Photographs contains numerous black and white images of the landscape and its flora and fauna. A contemporary photographer, Miller's pictures are timeless works of art in their own right. Text by Kriseele Baker and Martin Edmond.

Angelsea House, 2009. Hardback with dust jacket. 143 Pages. NEW.

The third great voyage of French pacific explorer Dumont d'Urville between 1837 and 1840 carried on board the eminent phrenologist Pierre-Marie Dumontier who made a series of plaster life casts of people encountered during the voyage. These full size life casts included Maori subjects. Fiona Pardington has photographed more than 50 these casts at the Musee de l'Homme and the results are published in this significant and beautiful book. The photographs are accompanied by essays by a number of distinguished scholars of pacific history.   

Otago University Press, Dunedin, 2011. Hardback with dust jacket. 160 pages. NEW

This is a celebration of the heyday of the picture theatre. A marvelous social history of a bygone era. Illustrated with a collection of photographs from throughout the country. 

Godwit Press, Auckland, 2008. Softback. 304 pages. NEW.

The postcards illustrated in this book offer a wonderful insight into New Zealand's everyday life and social history and were assembled by photohistorian Bill Main.

Softback. 140 pages. NEW.

It's In the Post the Stories Behind New Zealand Stamps. Wolfe places stamps, and series of stamps, in their historical, political and social perspective. 

Craig Potton Publishing, Nelson, 2010. Hardback with dust-jacket. Illustrated. 224 Pages. NEW.

Illustrates the way product design has been formed by isolation of the country. It will inform and surprise those interested in New Zealand heritage and design history.

Random House, Auckland, 2011. Softback. 511 pages. NEW

A tribute to the talent and skill of New Zealand craftsmen and women, featuring 133 artists and more than 250 photographs by Brian Brake.

A.H. & A.W. Reed, Wellington, 1981. Hardback with dust jacket. 294 pages. SECONDHAND

A beautifully photographed and in-depth account of the Anglo-Oriental pottery movement in New Zealand and how ceramics became the most popular art form of the 1960s and 1970s, used in homes around the country.

David Bateman Ltd., Auckland, 2009. Softback. 184 pages. NEW

A classic and essential book for all collectors and those interested in New Zealand pottery and the industry; from the pioneering days until the Crown Lynn climax of ceramic production in the 1970s. Fully illustrated.

Heinemann Publishers, Auckland, 1985. Hardback with dust jacket. 166 pages. SECONDHAND

Len Castle's potting career, which started in 1947, spans the emergence, flourishing and subsequent transformation of the craft movement of the twentieth century. His work epitomises it's vitality, it's deeply indigenous origins and the sophistication of it's craftsmanship and artistry. Sunned to spine.

Lopdell House, Gallery, Auckland, 2008. Hardback with dust jacket. 248 pages. SECONDHAND

A rich and little known aspect of New Zealand heritage originating from the 1860s onwards as immigrant artisans from Britain and Europe introduced the character of the new country into their work and made use of pounamu, New Zealand jade. Fully illustrated with a listing of over 100 makers marks, essential reference for all dealers and collectors.

Te Papa Press, Wellington, 1995. Hardback with dust jacket. 239 pages. SECONDHAND