Jacqueline Newman of Riccarton High School with her artwork.
Portraits of Grant Chirnside, a Christchurch artist with his painting "Skins - North Canterbury" which won the New Zealand section of the T. H. Saunders and Buckingford Internationsal watercolour...
Portrait of American artist Eva Ellis.
Portraits of American artist Eva Ellis.
Portraits of Grant Chirnside, a Christchurch artist with one his landscapes, "The Electricity Supply".
Portraits of Burnside High School student Pam McKelvey, winner of the monochrome section of the Clean Air Society’s national school pupils’ competition.
Sculptor Neil Dawson sitting in an armchair.
Canterbury artists clubbed together to offer bargains in paintings, pottery, sculpture and other works for a one-day fair to raise funds to reduce the mortgage on the Canterbury Society of Arts...
Michael Eaton, painter and art teacher, in relaxed seated pose. He has returned from four months in Britain, the United States and Europe on a Queen Elizabeth Arts Council scholarship.
Views of Marjorie Ruddle, arts and crafts adviser for the Canterbury education district, with paintings for an exhibition.
Views of painter, Doris Holland (Lusk) at her desk.
Jenny Hunt (right) and unidentified woman with examples of hand weaving for Canterbury Society of Arts gallery exhibition.
Views of Evelyn Downs in her flat at 20 Mabel Howard Place.
Views of the arts and crafts adviser from the Department of Education, Cath Brown setting up entries in the 'Christchurch Star’ schools art exhibition.
Rosemary Johnson with her art piece "Falling Fence" on display in the courtyard of the Christchurch Arts Centre as part of the Anzart International Arts Festival.
Carver Pat Mulcahy in his workshop working on a carving of a tuatara. Chisels and carving tools hang on a wall behind him.
Framed painting by French artist Laurent Joseph Olivier hanging in a shop. The portrait is of Justine Delcour and was painted in 1844.
English-Mexican sculptor Helen Escobedo.
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Carving by Pat Mulcahy of a female figurine.
Abstract carving by Pat Mulcahy.