Appendix D – Te Papa acquisition history credit lines

This list includes examples only. It is not exhaustive as new credit lines are constantly being introduced.

If the acquisition history is unknown, state ‘Acquisition history unknown’.

xxxx = relevant date
xxx = other relevant information

 

Purchases from museum funds

Purchased xxxx

 

Commissioned xxxx

 

Acquired xxxx [only if the means of acquisition is unknown]

Purchases from external funds

Purchased xxxx from Wellington City Council Picture Purchase Fund

 

Purchased xxxx with Minister’s discretionary funds

 

Purchased xxxx with Minister’s discretionary funds and New Zealand Lottery Grants Board funds

Before 1990

Purchased xxxx with New Zealand Lottery Board funds

After 1990

Purchased xxxx with New Zealand Lottery Grants Board funds

 

Purchased xxxx with Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council of New Zealand funds

Purchases from trust funds

Purchased xxxx from T G Macarthy Trust funds

 

Purchased xxxx from the Beverley, Rubina, and Mervyn Williamson Trust Fund

 

Purchased xxxx from the Molly Morpeth Canaday Fund

 

Purchased xxxx with Harold Beauchamp Collection funds

 

Purchased xxxx with Lindsay Buick Bequest / Mary Buick Bequest funds

[names to be used alternately for new purchases]

 

Purchased xxxx with Charles Disney Art Trust funds

 

Purchased xxxx with Ellen Eames Collection funds

 

Purchased xxxx with Dugald Henderson Bequest funds

 

Purchased xxxx with Sir John Ilott Charitable Trust funds

 

Purchased xxxx with Elise Mourant Collection funds

 

Purchased xxxx with G G Gibbes Watson Bequest funds

Purchases as part of major collections

Purchased xxxx as part of the Burton Brothers Collection

 

Oldman Collection, gift of the New Zealand Government, 1992

 

Purchased 1981 as part of the Thomas Borrow Collection, with New Zealand Lottery Board funds

Gifts

Gift of Alexander Turnbull, 1913

 

Gift of Bishop Monrad, 1869

 

Gift of Dame Elizabeth Knox Gilmer, 1955

 

Gift of E A Atkinson, 1935, on behalf of the artist’s daughter, D K Richmond

 

Gift of Gordon Burt Ltd, 1968

 

Gift of Hans and Martha Lachmann, 1995

 

Gift of Mrs Frances Neal, xxxx [if date unknown, leave out]

 

Gift of New Zealand Post Ltd, 1992

 

Gift of Rex Nan Kivell, 1951

 

Gift of the Navy Office, Wellington, 1925

 

Gift of the Rita Angus Estate, 1998

 

Gift of the Wellington City Council, 1929, as part of the Petherick Collection

 

Gift of the Wellington Dental Nursing School, 1993

 

Gift of Walter Cook, 1993

 

The New Zealand Rail Railway Model Collection, gift of New Zealand Rail Ltd, 1993

Bequests

Bequest of K A Webster, 1967

(NOTE: This credit applies to many objects with registration numbers beginning with WE.)

 

Bequest of Miss S Leetham, 1939

 

Bequest of Mrs E G Elgar, 1945

 

Bequest of Mrs E H Blair, 1918, in memory of her late husband, Archibald Anderson Watt

 

Bequest of Mrs Lillian Bushell, 1980

 

Bequest of Phoebe Maunsell, 1983

Loans and deposits

On loan from xxx [includes items said to be ‘on deposit’]

 

On loan from Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū

 

On loan from the Rita Angus Estate

(These works are part of our collection in the sense that they are on long-term loan here and have been since 1970. They used to be known as the Rita Angus Loan Collection at the National Art Gallery. They are a different category of loan to things we borrow for a specific exhibition.)

Commissions

Commissioned for the Te Papa exhibition xxx, xxx