Scrapbook, Hawke's Bay Art Gallery and Museum
Maker
Hawke's Bay Museum & Art Gallery
Production date
1957-1959
Current rights
Public Domain
Object detail
Brief Description
Scrapbook, titled H B A G M. The scrapbook contains newspaper cuttings, programmes and notices relating to the Hawke's Bay Art Gallery and Museum, Napier, for the period 1957 to 1959. The newspaper cuttings cover topics such as building works, new acquisitions, exhibitions and performances. Among the newspaper cuttings are several obituaries, including those of the museum's Director, Leonard Delabere Bestall, and Hawke's Bay artist Mrs Alice Lethbridge Avery. Press coverage of the opening of the Centennial Wing at the Canterbury Museum in Christchurch in November 1958 also appears in the scrapbook.
The scrapbook also contains reproductions of paintings and some photographs of unidentified members of the Royal Academy.
The scrapbook also contains reproductions of paintings and some photographs of unidentified members of the Royal Academy.
Production date
1957-1959
Production place
Production period
Production technique
Media/Materials description
Card covered with brown paper; printed in ink on newsprint; printed, typed, and handwritten in ink on paper.
Media/Materials
Measurements
Height x Width: 300 x 245mm
Classification terms
Subject person
Subject period
Subject date
1957-1959
Current rights
Public Domain
Other number(s)
88653
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