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One O'Clock Jump: British Linocuts from the Jazz Age
7 December 2024 –
11 May 2025
Sybil Andrews Racing 1934. Linocut. Collection of Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū, gift of Rex Nan Kivell, 1953. © Estate of Sybil Andrews, Glenbow, Calgary, Alberta
Dynamic and vibrant prints from a fast-changing world.
The humble linocut was a remarkable development in contemporary printmaking when it emerged against the backdrop of the modern era of the 1920s and 1930s. Colourful and vibrant, it was the perfect medium for conveying the fast-changing world of speeding motor vehicles, industry, city life and sport, as well as more traditional pastoral subjects. One O’Clock Jump: British Linocuts from the Jazz Age brings together a selection of exceptional prints from the folio presented to Aotearoa New Zealand by Ōtautahi Christchurch-born Rex Nan Kivell in 1953.
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Curator:
Peter Vangioni
Location:
Burdon Family Gallery
Monica Richards Gallery
Exhibition number: 1161
Collection works in this exhibition (43)
The Gold Rush
William Kermode
The Windmill
Sybil Andrews
Racing
Sybil Andrews
Football
Sybil Andrews
Winter
Claude Flight
Dirt Track Racing
Claude Flight
Serval
Caroline Yonge
Sailors’ Holiday
Lill Tschudi
Kiosk In Paris
Lill Tschudi
Ice Hockey
Lill Tschudi
Gymnastic Exercises
Lill Tschudi
Fixing The Wires
Lill Tschudi
Birds Following a Plough
Ethel L Spowers
Gust Of Wind
Ethel L Spowers
Scenic Railway
Kittie Roberts
The Tube Staircase
Cyril Edward Power
'Appy 'Ampstead
Cyril Edward Power
Pink And Blue
Enid Florence Martin
The Vets Visit
Margaret Barnard
Girl and Fox
Margaret Barnard
The Deck
Anne Henderson
Nasturtiums
Winifred Elizabeth Beatrice Hardman
Jug And Fruit
Ronald Grierson
Rhythm
William Greengrass
Hurdlers
William Greengrass
The Paper Mill
Anna R Findlay
Swings
Ethel L Spowers
Dutch Houses
Dorrit Black
Gone To Ground
Julia Mavrogordato
Built-up Town
Ursula Fookes
Dingo
Rachel Reckitt
The Calf Pasture
Alice Margaret Coats
Two White Horses
Alice Margaret Coats
Doric Dairy [also known as Milk Float]
Eileen Mayo
Grog
Leonard Beaumont
Abstract Design
Frank Weitzel
Wet Afternoon
Ethel L Spowers
France
Edith Lawrence
The Giant Cable
Sybil Andrews
Cats in the Trees
Eileen Mayo
Night Fishing
Margaret Barnard
Just-off
Lill Tschudi
The Eight
Cyril Edward Power
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Commentary
For the Price of a Pint of Beer
One of the joys of working at a public art gallery is the opportunity to really get to know an institution’s collection. I still remember, as a newly appointed curator of works on paper at the Robert McDougall Art Gallery, coming across a cache of the brightest, most colourful and energetic prints I had ever seen among the Rex Nan Kivell collection of modern British prints. Given to the Gallery in 1953, the sheer breadth and depth of Nan Kivell’s incredibly comprehensive gift, especially when combined with the works he gave to Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki and Dunedin Public Art Gallery, makes this a collection of British linocuts to rival those in major collections throughout the world.