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Behind the scenes
These are the exhibitions that were on at the Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū and its predecessor the Robert McDougall Art Gallery, 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago this month
Ten years ago you could see The Allure of Light, French impressionist paintings from the National Gallery of Victoria
Edouard Manet The house at Rueil. Felton Bequest, 1826. National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.
Twenty years ago it was White Camellias, a retrospective exhibition of work by women artists in Canterbury, held in association with the 1993 Suffrage Centennial Trust, Whakatu Wahine.
Daisy Osborn From My Garden, White Camellias Oil on canvas. Collection of Christchurch Art Gallery; presented by the artist.
Thirty years ago, Richard Killeen's Chance and inevitability opened. Here members of the public were invited to attach metal cutouts anywhere and arrange them anyway they chose.
Richard Killeen's Chance and inevitability in Bulletin 27
Forty years ago saw an exhibiiton of Thomas Rowlandson's caricatures
Thomas Rowlandson An Astronomer!! Aquatint. Collection of Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū
And fifty years ago there was a bizarre exhibition of British children's art
The editor of 'The Star', Mr G Burns opened the show and commended it as 'the expression of young, clean, healthy, wholesome minds.'
