Kayrene Trask Prints

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Women's Suffrage Prints

Kayrene Ruth Trask

Artwork details

Date

1993

Mediums

Reproduction Print

Physical description

Three coloured lithograph prints created from soft pastel drawings issued as the “Centennial Collection” of women’s suffrage 1893-1993, framed.

First Time (Election Day, 28 November 1893), Portrait of Kate Sheppard, and Legacy.

Description

Kayrene Ruth Trask (1945-) is an Aotearoa New Zealand artist.

These three prints are a series known as the “Centennial Collection” 1993. They were issued by the Turnbull Library to mark the achievement of suffrage campaigners, led by Kate Sheppard in 1891, 1892 and 1893. These works are numbered 25 of an edition of 1000 printed – making them a limited edition.

The Brider Bequest Collection

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The Brider Bequest Collection

Multiple Artists

Artwork details

Date	Unknown
Mediums	Mixed Media
Physical description	A series of art works collected by Mrs Marianne Brider of Cambridge and gifted to Council. Each artwork has its particular theme and mediums used.

Description

Marianne Estelle married a retired newspaper publisher Herbert Arthur Brider in Wanganui, 1944. They settled in Cambridge where she was a keen member of the Historical Society.

They resided in Thornton Road, then Bryce Street and finally in Grey Street. Herbert died in Cambridge, February 1955 and Estelle on 26th December 1959. They are both buried at Hautapu Cemetery.

Mrs Brider was the granddaughter of Rev Richard Davis who was sent to Aotearoa New Zealand, with his wife and six eldest children in 1824, by the church Missionary Society to become farmer to the Mission Station.

Mrs Brider bequeathed twenty-seven artworks to Council in 1960. It is the most significant collection within the Council Art Collection in terms of the number of works, the calibre of artists and the provenance coming all from one donor.

To view each art work and its information, click on the image which will open up to a larger image revealing the information.

Cambridge Settlement 1863

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Cambridge Settlement 1863

Gustavus von Tempsky

Artwork details

Date	Unknown
Mediums	Print
Physical description	A reproduction of a hand-drawn sketch of a small encampment by a river with soldiers in the foreground, framed.

Description

Gustavus von Tempsky (1828-1868), was a member of the volunteer Forest Rangers in Aotearoa New Zealand during the land wars of 1863.

Von Tempsky was an amateur watercolourist who painted landscapes and the military campaign.

This artwork is a reproduction print of the military settlement in Cambridge during the Ngā Pakanga (Land Wars) of 1863.