Once there were four friends, at school in Wellington, at leisure in London and at work in Wellington. They were Alex and Rob Turnbull and Leo and Percy Buller. This article examines Arthur Percival Buller (1866–1910) and his life as an amateur entomolog ...
Rathmell Wilson, Hinemoa, Tutanekai and Eve Balfour In 1905 the Oxford Review critiqued a book called Hinemoa and Tutanekai. A Maori Legend. It was written by Rathmell Wilson, a 22 year old Oxford scholar who had never been to New Zealand. Wilson wrot ...
Download the full blog with images here We call them “native orchids” as do the Australians and Americans. Britain shares some European orchids, so Englishmen refer to “wild orchids,” the French have “orchidées sauvages” and the Italians “orchidee sp ...
While Raymond McIntyre often mentioned Eve Balfour in his 1911–1914 letters home from London to his family, he made no reference to her as a model, though two—perhaps more—of his portraits of her are known. Furthermore, she is not an elusive figure but w ...
A bronze statuette of Cliff Porter, captain of the 1924 All Black Invincibles, made by Vincent Evans ARCA, Art Master at Wanganui Technical College, was to be New Zealand’s entry in the Sculpture section of the 1928 Olympic Games in Amsterdam, th ...
In 2015 the Press carried a series about works in the Christchurch Art Gallery collection. On 25 August it published an article on Raymond McIntyre by gallery curator Ken Hall. He wrote about McIntyre’s “principal muse for his portrait studies” (identifi ...
In 1925 a group of influential New Zealanders living in London were so proud of the 1924–1925 Invincibles that they decided to take up a collection among NZers in Britain to make a presentation to the All Black team.
They gave them a huge silver “loving cup”: the trouble is, nobody knows where it is now.
