Romancing the Collection
Romancing the Collection, offers a love letter to the city鈥檚 public art collection, providing a deep dive to present much-loved favourites alongside artworks that 鈥� perhaps 鈥� have been previously overlooked and under-loved.
Blending the historical with the contemporary, the exhibition traverses time to show just how tastes have changed in the decades through which Auckland's art collection has grown.
From portraits to pop art and even a Picasso, Romancing the Collection delves into portraiture, romance, vistas, animalia, still life and abstract works. It opens with the remarkable M膩ori portraits painted in oils by 19th-century artists, Gottfried Lindauer and Charles F Goldie, and includes the work of other leading portraitists, Allan Ramsay, Joshua Reynolds and Henry Raeburn.
Romancing the Collection explores all the complexities of love from first flirtation to unrequited and fickle love, and even hidden desires. As styles and sensibilities shift, the exhibition demonstrates how frivolities give way to formalisms.
Romancing the Collection, offers a love letter to the city鈥檚 public art collection, providing a deep dive to present much-loved favourites alongside artworks that 鈥� perhaps 鈥� have been previously overlooked and under-loved.
Blending the historical with the contemporary, the exhibition traverses time to show just how tastes have changed in the decades through which Auckland's art collection has grown.
From portraits to pop art and even a Picasso, Romancing the Collection delves into portraiture, romance, vistas, animalia, still life and abstract works. It opens with the remarkable M膩ori portraits painted in oils by 19th-century artists, Gottfried Lindauer and Charles F Goldie, and includes the work of other leading portraitists, Allan Ramsay, Joshua Reynolds and Henry Raeburn.
Romancing the Collection explores all the complexities of love from first flirtation to unrequited and fickle love, and even hidden desires. As styles and sensibilities shift, the exhibition demonstrates how frivolities give way to formalisms.
Artists on show
- Alan Ingham
- Alexander Archipenko
- Alexander Roslin
- Alicia Frankovich
- Allan Ramsay
- Archibald Joseph Charles Fisher
- Aristide Maillol
- Bernhard Heiliger
- Bessie Christie
- Cecil Jameson
- Charles Frederick Goldie
- Christopher Perkins
- Colin McCahon
- Dame Laura Knight
- Ed Ruscha
- Ethel Walker
- Geoff W Perry
- Glenn Busch
- Gottfried Lindauer
- Henry Raeburn
- Jacob Epstein
- Jean Farquhar
- John Raphael Smith
- John Weeks
- Joseph Nollekens
- Jude Rae
- Lionel Lindsay
- Marcus Stone
- Margaret Dawson
- Marie Shannon
- Maud Winifred Sherwood
- Michael Shepherd
- Molly Macalister
- Pablo Picasso
- Patrick Caulfield
- Patrick Hayman
- Saskia Leek
- Sir Joshua Reynolds
- Thomas Beach
- Thomas Cook
- Tilly Kettle
- Valentine Green
- Victoria Edwards
- Vyvyan Hunt
- Walter Dendy Sadler
- Walter John Bayes
- Wilfred Stanley Wallis
- William Beechey
- William Hogarth
- William James Reed
- William Powell Frith
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