Christchurch Art Gallery • 14 Feb – 8 Mar 2024
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The Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū is the public art gallery of Christchurch City, and one of New Zealand's most significant art collections. Funded by Christchurch City Council, it opened on 10 May 2003, replacing the 1932 Robert McDougall Art Gallery. From 11 February to 28 May 2023 it hosted the exhibition Ink on Paper: Aotearoa New Zealand Printmakers of the Modern Era, featuring 49 artists. The hardcover catalogue of the show is out of print, but has been made available as a free PDF download from the Gallery's website. For this reason, Ink on Paper was chosen as the focus of a Wikimedia project.
To do
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Improve Cass (painting) (especially with photographs)✓- Create a list of all New Zealand institutions with Rita Angus holdings, and collate their different copyright and licensing statements
Make sure every artist in Ink on Paper has a Wikidata item✓- Check Wikidata for each artist for completeness
Create a Wikidata item for the Ink on Paper exhibition, modelled on other famous exhibitions and checked against the Cradle template for exhibitions, including the list of artists below✓- (Maybe create an entity schema for exhibits, as there doesn't seem to be one?)
- Where possible make the public-domain (in USA) work of each artist available in Wikimedia Commons
- Create, with the assistance of volunteers, stubs for all the artists featured in Ink on Paper
Run a public meetup and edit-a-thon in the Art Gallery to further improve artist articles✓
To work on
edit| Artist | Copyright | Commons? | Wikipedia | Quality | Photos | Who's working on this? | Notes |
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| Edith Collier (Q5338519) | PD-NZ, PD-US-expired | Yes, 1 work | Edith Collier |  →
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2 | Most of her work is pre-1929. Needs expansion. | |
| Raymond McIntyre (Q7298782) | PD-US-expired (some PD-US-1996) | Yes, 16 works | Raymond McIntyre | →
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8 | ||
| Thomas Gulliver (Q49072276) | PD-US-expired | Yes | Thomas Gulliver | — | David Palmer//cloventt (talk) | Malt and Hops from UofA? | |
| Arnold Goodwin (Q59346280) | © but some PD-US-expired | — | Arnold Goodwin | — | David Palmer//cloventt (talk) | The Timber Yard from Auckland Art Gallery? | |
| Roland Hipkins (Q21454574) | PD-NZ but some PD-US-expired | — | Roland Hipkins | →
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2 | Needs Commons cat. One painting, not PD. Possible linocuts? | |
| Robert Nettleton Field (Q7347999) | © but some PD-US-expired | Yes | Robert Nettleton Field |  →
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1 → | Just one sculpture in Commons | |
| William Henry Allen (Q75646631) | © | — | William Henry Allen (artist) | — | David Palmer//cloventt (talk) | Road to Wanaka is PD-US-expired. No real sources in CAG. | |
| Francis Aubrey Shurrock (Q5480050) | © | — | Francis Shurrock | →
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0 → | No images; Poppies and other work is 1929 on. | |
| Marion Elizabeth Tylee (Q28709789) | © but some PD-US-expired | — | Marion Tylee | →
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0 → | No images. Rooftops | |
| May Oswald Gilbert (Q64852890) | © | — | May Gilbert | →
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MurielMary | A 1929 and 1930 work in the objects list | |
| Rhona Haszard (Q6583195) | PD-US-1996 | Yes | Rhona Haszard | →
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1 → | Giantflightlessbirds | All works can go to Commons |
| May Smith (Q6796586) | © | — | May Smith (textile designer) | →
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0 → | ||
| Olivia Spencer Bower (Q5052853) | © | — | Olivia Spencer Bower | →
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1 → | ||
| Frank Weitzel (Q43139900) | PD-US-1996 | Yes | Frank Weitzel | →
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→ 11 | Giantflightlessbirds | Created, added 15 works to Commons |
| James Fitzgerald (Q56615725) | PD-US-1996 | — | James Fitzgerald (artist) | — | Add all works to Commons | ||
| Albert James Rae (Q56616494) | PD-NZ but some PD-US-expired | — | Albert James Rae | — | Mt Sefton (1928) | ||
| Ronald McKenzie (Q56650983) | PD-NZ but some PD-US-expired | — | Ronald McKenzie (artist) | — | See 1920s etchings | ||
| Alexander Hare McLintock (Q4719082) | PD-NZ | — | Alexander Hare McLintock | →
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0 → | 1929 etching (next year). Any earlier work? | |
| Eleanor Hughes (Q44689670) | PD-NZ but some PD-US-expired | — | Eleanor Hughes | →
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0 → | 3 1929–1930 etchings | |
| Harry Vye Miller (Q60903160) | © (any PD-US-expired?) | — | Harry Vye Miller | — | Any earlier work? | ||
| Evelyn Page (Q5416374) | © (any PD-US-expired?) | — | Evelyn Page | →
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1 → | Any 1920s work? | |
| Rita Angus (Q7336470) | PD-NZ | Yes, 7 images (one ©) | Rita Angus |  →
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2 | Alexeyevitch | improve references |
| Hilda Alexandra Wiseman (Q5761306) | © but some PD-US-expired | — | Hilda Wiseman | →
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1 → | Huias (and see her other 1920s linocut bookplates) | |
| Adele Younghusband (Q4681601) | PD-NZ | Yes | Adele Younghusband | →
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1 → | Alexeyevitch | Needs expansion, improve references |
| Nancy M. Bolton (Q64918667) | © | — | Nancy Bolton | — | DrThneed | Merged WD with Nancy Parker; check | |
| Ida Gertrude Eise (Q5987019) | © (any PD-US-expired?) | — | Ida Eise | →
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0 → | Expand, images | |
| Anna Lois White (Q6668401) | © (any PD-US-expired?) | — | Lois White | →
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1 → | ||
| Douglas J. McLeod (Q107296587) | © (any PD-US-expired?) | — | Douglas J. McLeod | — | Creamoata billboard? | ||
| Herbert Richard Tornquist (Q61881672) | PD-NZ | — | Herbert Richard Tornquist | — | |||
| Hinehauone Coralie Cameron (Q65600768) | © | Yes, 1 photo | Hinehauone Coralie Cameron | →
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1 → | ||
| Frances Hodgkins (Q1264271) | PD-NZ | Yes | Frances Hodgkins | →
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9 | Alexeyevitch | Gallery could use some cleanup, and need to aquire book sources |
| Anne Hamblett (Q64852934) | © | — | Anne Hamblett | →
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0 → | ||
| Doris Lusk (Q5297965) | © | — | Doris Lusk | →
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1 → | ||
| Ernest Mervyn Taylor (Q16003760) | PD-NZ | Yes, some prob. Crown ©, others © | E. Mervyn Taylor | →
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1 → | Needs much expansion: it's mostly about his murals | |
| Leo Vernon Bensemann (Q6524306) | © | Yes, 1 war portrait | Leo Bensemann | →
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1 → | Very short | |
| Rona Ina Dyer (Q64852821) | © | — | Rona Ina Dyer | — | MurielMary | ||
| Stewart Bell Maclennan (Q15485603) | PD-NZ | — | Stewart Maclennan | →
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0 → | Surely more images of him as NAG director? | |
| Florence Eleanor Akins (Q24285769) | © | — | Florence Akins | →
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0 → | ||
| Chrystabel Aitken (Q28555182) | © | — | Chrystabel Aitken | →
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0 → | ||
| William Alexander Sutton (Q4911067) | © | — | Bill Sutton | →
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1 → | ||
| John Moore (Q61941099) | PD-NZ (any PD-US-expired?) | — | John Lysaght Moore | →
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0 → | Need images: check other collections | |
| Ivy Grace Fife (Q27924506) | © | — | Ivy Fife | →
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0 → | ||
| Kenneth Hassall (Q61823173) | PD-NZ | — | Kenneth Hassall | — | David Palmer//cloventt (talk) | Article in Azerbaijani! | |
| Gertrude Ball (Q56815195) | PD-NZ (any PD-US-expired?) | — | Gertrude Ball | — | MurielMary | ||
| John Buckland Wright (Q1566235) | PD-NZ (any PD-US-expired?) | Yes, but empty (good template to reuse) | John Buckland Wright | →
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1 → | Much room for expansion, and his book cover at least. | |
| Mabel Annesley (Q6721403) | PD-NZ (any PD-US-expired?) | No (one blurry photo needs categorising) | Mabel Annesley | →
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1 → | ||
| Juliet Peter (Q18763748) | © | — | Juliet Peter |
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0 → | Herewhy | No images |
| Colin McCahon (Q5145349) | © | Yes (one school journal illustration) | Colin McCahon | 
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5 → | ||
| Louise Henderson (Q6688783) | © | — | Louise Henderson | →
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0 → |
Done
edit- Improved Wikidata work and edition for Ink on Paper (1st ed.) (Q118224886)
- Created Peter Vangioni (Q124547198)
- Created Rita Angus: an artist's life (Q124630861), Rita Angus: an artist's life (2008) (Q124630869), and Rita Angus: an artist's life (2020) (Q124630879)
- Improved Cass (painting) from Start to B class
- Created the exhibition Ink on Paper (Q124733840) and Category:Ink on Paper (2023 exhibition) in Commons, adding public domain works following Te Papa's lead
- Improved Cradle template for "Exhibit": substituting exhibited creator (P10661) for participant (P710), and adding a few other useful properties. I've made some notes on what a good exhibit in Wikidata should look like here.
- Surprisingly, Ink on Paper (Q124733840) seems to be the best-documented museum exhibit in Wikidata. There are many art gallery shows from MoMA in Wikidata, with long lists of exhibitors, but they all have about 7 properties; Ink on Paper has 17. I've added it as a model item (P5869).
- Checked all the artists for their copyright status: note that works produced pre-1929 can be uploaded to Commons as PD-US-expired (if PD in NZ and the artist died over 70 years ago), or to Wikipedia as PD-US-expired-abroad (if not yet 70 years, even if PD in NZ).
- Created a spreadsheet of works that might be eligible to go into Commons (although some are still © in NZ, so negotiation with the copyright owner about an open licence would be needed).
- Improved May Gilbert after it was threatened with deletion, using the reference We Learnt to See (2004) (Q126800974) (created in Wikidata along with co-author and publisher).
- Worked with Tim Jones to get the actual objects list for the show (different from the list of works in the Ink on Paper book) and make it available for download from the exhibition page (a first).
- Possible new project: the 1906–07 International Exhibition in Christchurch, as the Art Gallery has a to-be-scanned book on it
Resources
edit- Peter Vangioni (2023). Ink on Paper: Aotearoa New Zealand Printmakers of the Modern Era. Christchurch: Christchurch Art Gallery. ISBN 978-1-87-737577-4. OCLC 1370607329. OL 51712170M. Wikidata Q118224886.
- Ian Thwaites; Rie Fletcher (2004). We Learnt to See: Elam's Rutland Group 1935–1958. Auckland: Puriri Press. ISBN 0-908-94327-X. Wikidata Q126800974.
- Trevelyan, Jill (2020). Rita Angus: An artist's life (2nd ed.). Wellington: Te Papa Press. ISBN 978-0-9951338-2-2. OL 35556460M. Wikidata Q124630879.
- 100 Years of the Cass field station (shows the Rita Angus painting and Ellen Heine photos)
- Wikipedia Manual of Style (Visual Arts)
- Wikidata WikiProject Visual Arts