Story: Painting

More links and websites

• Artfind

  A website that showcases contemporary New Zealand visual art, including painting.

• Artists on screen

  NZ On Screen hosts this collection of short films about New Zealand artists.

• Auckland Art Gallery

  The Auckland Art Gallery website includes a comprehensive collection of paintings that can be searched by artist.

• Christchurch Art Gallery

  The site of the Christchurch Art Gallery allows users to search or browse their collection of paintings.

• Hamish McKay Gallery

  The website of this dealer gallery offers good information about a range of contemporary New Zealand artists, including painters.

• History of New Zealand painting

  This NZ History article provides an overview of painting in New Zealand.

More suggestions and sources

• Bell, Leonard. The Maori in European art: a survey of the representation of the Maori by European artists from the time of Captain Cook to the present day. Wellington: Reed, 1980.
• Brown, Gordon H., and Hamish Keith. An introduction to New Zealand painting, 1839–1980. Rev. ed. Auckland: David Bateman, 1988.
• Docking, Gil, and Michael Dunn. Two hundred years of New Zealand painting. Rev. ed. Auckland: David Bateman, 1990.
• Dunn, Michael. New Zealand painting: a concise history. Rev. ed. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2003.
• Pound, Francis. Frames on the land: early landscape painting in New Zealand. Auckland: Collins, 1983.
• Pound, Francis. The invention of New Zealand art and national identity, 1930–1970. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2009.