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Christine Cole Catley and Frank Sargeson

Christine Cole Catley and Frank Sargeson

Christine Cole Catley and Frank Sargeson admire the tomato plants in Sargeson’s garden in Takapuna, Auckland, around 1950. Sargeson appointed Cole Catley the sole beneficiary of his estate, and she established the Frank Sargeson Trust to maintain his home as a museum and meeting place and to offer an annual residential fellowship to writers.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Alexander Turnbull Library, John Reece Cole Collection

Reference: PAColl-7280-01

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Tim Shoebridge. 'Cole Catley, Christine McKelvie', Ngā Tāngata Taumata Rau, i tāngia tuatahitia ki 2019, whakahou January 2021. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/47163/christine-cole-catley-and-frank-sargeson (accessed 4 June 2026).