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As with so many other early NZ artists George Sheriff was born in England. Before emigrating he studied art as a career and arrived in Wanganui around 1883. He then took up farming and continued painting. He is recorded as having exhibited with the Fine Arts...

This is a very fine, evocative photo signed by the noted photographer George Chance (1885-1963). Chance was a prominent and well-respected photographer active in the early 20th century. He is best known for his photographs of landscape and rural scenes produced during...

This is a very attractive large watercolour by the New Zealand artist Francis McCracken (1879-1959). McCracken was born in Northern Ireland and emigrated with his family to Australia while still a child. After a period he moved to Auckland studying at the Elam School...

Today’s subject is a large oil of Mount Ruapehu painted around 1950 by the Australian artist Ernest Buckmaster (1897-1968). He studied at the National Gallery School of Art in Victoria from 1918 until 1924. Buckmaster was a highly regarded and extremely prolific...

In our last post we spoke about Colin McCahon and his religious works. Now we being more light-hearted. Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827) was an English artist and caricaturist of the Georgian era, noted for his political satire and social observation. A prolific artist...

In this post we’re looking at a book – a rather famous book – just 24 pages in all (including covers) and valued at around $8,000-$10,000. It is of course Colin McCahon’s 15 Drawings executed between December 1951 and May 1952. They depict the ‘Way of the Cross’ being...

Today we feature one of our New Zealand works coming to auction on September 1. It is a large oil painting of a rather beautiful sunset by the artist James Peele (1846-1905). It is signed and dated 1894. Born in Australia Peele came to New Zealand in 1865 where he...

September 1 sees the launch of our first online art auction. It will be held here in Whanganui but we expect bidders from around New Zealand and indeed the world. We have already had interest from the UK and Australia. Although the final number of auction Lots is not...

September 1 sees the launch of our first online art auction. It will be held here in Whanganui but we expect bidders from around New Zealand and indeed the world. We have already had interest from the UK and Australia. Although the final number of auction Lots is not...