Image credit: Rita Angus, Untitled [Mountain Biological Station, Cass], 1936, watercolour, UC-APC-1170.
Archives are freely available for use by students and staff of the University of Canterbury through the Macmillan Brown Library. For more information about accessing archives please contact Macmillan Brown Library staff at macbrown@libr.canterbury.ac.nz.
A selection of archival collections available which may be of interest to researchers of Fine Arts and Art History include:
Miscellaneous material found in the School of Fine Arts Library relating to Rudi Gopas who taught at the SFA
Leo Bensemann illustrations and card
Bensemann’s involvement in the world of art and publishing is well documented in this collection of material. A large range of correspondence, notes; together with material related to the Caxton Press, Landfall & Ascent are present, as are personal letters and cards. Bensemann visited the German branch of this family and many notes and items relate to their businesses
24 art originals, pencil on paper 38 x 55cm or 25 x 31cm. The drawings are abstract designs and are contained in one large and one small drawing book. The drawings are represented as having been received from 'Caxo, Priest of the Temple of Isis' through the medium of Sophie Garland Allan
Minutes
Papers relating to the Akaroa Coronation Library, 'The Group' and the Akaroa Literary Institute
Barbara Brooke, with her husband Andre Brooke, established the dealer gallery, Gallery 91, in Christchurch in 1958. The gallery closed in 1959. In 1975 she established, with Judith Gifford, the Brooke-Gifford Gallery. She was also joint editor, with Leo Bensemann, of 'Ascent', a journal of the arts in New Zealand, which was published by the Caxton Press from 1867-1969
'Photography art and realism: a problem or perception: a person view' [manuscript] by Peter Ireland. 57 leaves, 30 cm
Catalogue of the artist's work numbered 1 (1959/60) to 478 (1987)
The artwork of Audrey Black consisting of 1 book, 2 large art folders and 2 small art folders
Twenty Years: Painting: 1972-1992: January 22 - February 16, 1992. Photocopy [in colour] of original manuscript exhibition catalogue. At head of the title: Gisborne Museum and Arts Centre
Letter from Otago Centennial Historical Committee, letter from Fielding Agricultural High School referring to a portrait of L J Wild
Vice-Chancellors Working Party on the Art Collection report. 19 Oct 2001
Photographs, drawings and papers dating from the 1870s to the 1970s
Painting representing land where the Macmillan Brown Library now sits; booklet of postcards relating to the 1907 New Zealand exhibition
Photographs of new workspace building
Material relating to Maori, peace, environmental activism and the arts. Includes field notebooks of Canterbury Maori rock art
Documents, press cuttings and other materials relating to the creator's artistic, social and political interests
Administrative material, correspondence, photographs, exhibition and project files
Minutes, photographs, correspondence and miscellanea especially relating to 'The Group'
6 rolled publicity posters from the UC School of Fine Arts
Papers reflecting Professor Simpson's work with the University of Canterbury School of Fine Arts
Art lectures delivered at Canterbury College by John Macmillan Brown
Baverstock was Secretary of the Canterbury Society of Arts, Part- time Curator of the Robert McDougall Art Gallery from 1943 to 1960 and Director (full time) of the McDougall Art Gallery from 1960 to c.1970
Sculpture, Christmas cards, pendant, graphic works, photographs and Broadsheet
Designs for reverse of 10 cent coin New Zealand decimal currency
The collection comprises material relating to the history and academic programmes of the School of Fine Arts at both the inner city site and its later move to Ilam. Ranging in content from registers, art works, photography, published works, audio & video tapes, minute books and indices, the collection is wide ranging and has been previously catalogued around 1991. Original cataloguing details have been recorded in the inventory where known
Typescripts of a series of lunchtime talks given by postgraduate students from the School of Fine Arts on works of art at the University of Canterbury