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Landscape Gallery
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A selection of New Zealand landscape paintings from
a collection that spanned much of the past century...
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Arrowtown
by Peter McIntyre
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Toward Galloway
by Peter McIntyre
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Arrowtown
by Douglas Badcock
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Near Omakau
by Peter McIntyre
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By Ernest Buckmaster
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Otago Landscape
by John Loxton
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The Outlet, Lake Wanaka
by Brian Halliday
3rd Prize Kelliher Art Competition 1967
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Harrowing with Clydesdales
By John Loxton
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King Country - near Piopio
By John Weeks
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Rata on the Mokau
By E B Lattey
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Autumn Morning
by E B Lattey
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West Coast
By John Loxton
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Old Homestead
By John Loxton
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Trees by Lake Wakatipu
by Colin Muncaster
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Near Motutapu
by John Loxton
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In the Stillness
by Graham Braddock
Kelliher Art Competition Award 1976
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Acknowledgements
/ Disclaimer: please note that although many of the paintings featured
above were commissioned / collected by Sir Henry during his lifetime,
few remain in The Kelliher Art Trust's Collection. If you currently own
any of these paintings and would like to be acknowledged or have a photo
removed, please do not hesitate to contact us. It is our intention to
inform, not offend.
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Acknowledgements:
Photo courtesy of IEM White
Pictured from left to right are: Sir William
Dargie, Cedric Savage and Sir Henry Kelliher on the opening night of The
Kelliher Art Competition Exhibition in 1961; several of the paintings
chosen for display that year can be seen in the background.
Sir William Dargie
1912 - 2003
Those interested in Australasian art were saddened to learn of the passing
of Sir William Dargie (pictured above on the left).
The Australian artist's legacy has survived him to enrich future generations
who will see Australia and New Zealand (and the citizens of both countries)
as he saw them, through the great works that were his life's work.
They will celebrate his life - winner of the Archibald Prize eight times,
Sir William captured better than anyone the face of an evolving nation.
He froze in time the creativity and genius of other artists, including
Albert Namatjira, and he brought to life famous faces otherwise seen only
at a distance by ordinary people.
Sir William's landscapes and faces - the spirit of lives, achievements
and torments are forever accessible in galleries and various collections.
So too, in capturing those images, has his own immortality been assured
(albeit unwittingly).
Sir William was both a great man and an expert practitioner of his craft.
He added value to our lives - at the very least uplifting us for a moment
or two but also generating knowledge and encouraging talent and thought.
His contribution to New Zealand landscape
painting, and the development of emerging landscape artists, is not
to be underestimated. Sir William judged the Kelliher
Art Competition on four occasions and, as the last surviving founding-member
of The Kelliher Art Trust's management board, ensured the Trust's continuity
to this day.
The Kelliher Art Trust has several of Sir William's paintings in its collection,
including a portrait of Sir Henry.
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