Wikipedia:GLAM/AoWPAL 2025/Artists
Art and Artists of Banks Peninsula was the Wikipedian at Large focus project for May 2025.
This sub-project is twofold: 1. Artistic deptictions of Banks Peninsula over the years that are in the public domain (in the USA) and can be moved to Commons and used in Wikipedia articles. and 2. Resident artists who have had enough media coverage that we are able to create or improve their Wikipedia articles, or at least create them in Wikidata.
Images of the Peninsula
[edit]The key references will be:
- Gordon Ogilvie (1992). Picturing the Peninsula: early days on Banks Peninsula (1st ed.). Christchurch: Hazard Press. ISBN 0-908790-43-0. Wikidata Q134527249.
- Gordon Ogilvie (2017). Place Names of Banks Peninsula and the Port Hills. Christchurch: Canterbury University Press. ISBN 978-1-927145-93-7. OCLC 1003254273. OL 27788558M. Wikidata Q125954864.
Both contain numerous colour plates of Banks Peninsula paintings (I'm not including paintings of Christchurch suburbs like Sumner). Please feel free to check for these in Commons, download from public sources, upload to Commons, link names, and create Wikidata. Then we can add them to appropriate articles—the places portrayed, and galleries on the artist Wikipedia articles.
Christchurch Art Gallery's 2007 exhibition Picturing the Peninsula is another gateway into depictions of Banks Peninsula, and the work of Margaret Stoddart.
The Akaroa Museum have several works by William Watkins and Samuel Farr in their collection, which they may be able to supply in higher resolution for Commons.
| Wikidata | Title (and Commons link if any) | Year | Artist | Collection | URL | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maori Kaik, Little River, Banks Peninsula | 1880s | Joseph Sandell Welch | ATL | A-120-047-3 | ||
| Taumutu | 1902 | Alfred Wilson Walsh | CAG | 69/614 | ||
| Little River | 1883 | Thomas Cane | CAG | 69/224 | ||
| The Maori Settlement, Purau Bay, Port Cooper | 1850 | Richard Aldworth Oliver | CAG | 83/49 | ||
| Port Lyttelton, N.Z., March 9, 1874 from Nature | 1874 | Thomas Cane | CAG | 2003/35 | ||
| Lyttelton Harbour, N.Z. Inside the Breakwater | 1886 | John Gibb | CAG | 89/209 | ||
| Wainui Peninsula | 1891 | Thomas Cane | CAG | 99/47 | ||
| Maori Church Little River | 1919 | Arthur Lagden Haylock | ATL | A-157-009 | ||
| Lake Forsyth, Banks Peninsula | 1879 | Joseph Sandell Welch | ATL | A-120-041 | ||
| Sumner Road, Lyttelton | 1877 | Katherine McLean Holmes | ATL | E-326-f-038-1 | ||
| Lyttelton Harbour | c.1877 | Charles Decimus Barraud | ATL | PUBL-0016-28 | ||
| Logging totara, Robinson's Bay, Akaroa | c.1868 | William Mathew Hodgkins | ATL | A-027-006 | ||
| Akaroa. The Bay. | 1868 or 1869 | William Mathew Hodgkins | ATL | C-110-04 | ||
| Entrance, Akaroa Harbour | 1870s | Joseph Sandell Welch | ATL | A-120-037 | ||
| German Bay. Looking across the harbour, Akaroa | 1868 or 1869 | William Mathew Hodgkins | ATL | B-066-001 | ||
| Akaroa Harbour | 1888 | William Montague Nevin | CAG | 69/195 | ||
| Akaroa Harbour | c.1875 | John Barr Clark Hoyte | CAG | L88/07 | ||
| German Bay, Akaroa | (1880s?) | Edwyn Temple | CAG | 2004/35 | ||
| Akaroa | 1877 | Thomas Cane | CAG | 69/615 | ||
| Back of the Peak, Mt Brazenose, Akaroa | 1868 or 1869 | William Mathew Hodgkins | ATL | B-066-005 | ||
| Mount Berard, 'Brazenose', Akaroa | 1868 | William Mathew Hodgkins | ATL | A-027-008 | ||
| Okains Bay, Banks Peninsula | 1870s | Joseph Sandell Welch | ATL | A-120-042 | ||
| Pigeon Bay Creek, Banks Peninsula, N.Z. | 1867 | Nicholas Chevalier | CAG | 2006/025 | ||
| Akaroa Harbour | 1888 | William Watkins | CAG | 69/195 | https://christchurchartgallery.org.nz/collection/69195/william-watkins/akaroa-harbour | |
| Mr Rhodes’ Station, Acheron Bay. Canterbury | Dec 1848 | William Fox | Hocken | A782 | https://hocken.recollect.co.nz/nodes/view/55753 | |
| Kiri-kiri-whare Pa | 1889 | John Gibb | ATL | B-118-053 | https://natlib.govt.nz/records/22711979 | |
| Mr Cholmondeley's farm in Port Albert | 15 Nov 1852 | James Edward FitzGerald | Canterbury Museum | 1938.238.26 | https://collection.canterburymuseum.com/objects/116589/painting-mr-cholmondeleys-farm-in-port-albert | |
| Craigforth, Pigeon Bay | 2 June 1853 | William Leigh | Canterbury Museum ? | |||
| The property of G. Holmes Esq, Pigeon Bay | 1866 | Nicholas Chevalier | National Library of Australia | 903779 | https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/catalog/903779 | |
| Homestead and Storehouse, Akaroa, 1848 | 1848 | Richard Aldworth Oliver | Mrs McClintock c P.B. Maling | |||
| First Landing at Akaroa | c. 19 Aug 1840 | Owen Stanley | National Library of Australia | 963791 | https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/catalog/963791 | |
| The Victoria Inn | 1850 | Samuel Charles Farr | Akaroa Museum | |||
| Maori Woman and children at Akaroa | 1850 | Richard Aldworth Oliver | ATL | |||
| Maori Kaik, Akaroa Bay | 1853 | William Leigh | Canterbury Museum ? | |||
| Akaroa | Dec 1848 | William Fox | Hocken | 12,773 | https://hocken.recollect.co.nz/nodes/view/56813 | |
| Akaroa from Cemetery Hill | 20 Jun 1853 | William Leigh | Canterbury Museum ? | |||
| Akaroa seen from the hill behind the home of John Watson, the town's Rural Magistrate | 17 Nov 1852 | Jams Edward FitzGerald | Canterbury Museum | |||
| Akaroa from Cherry Farm, above Selwyn Avenue | 1866 | Wiliam Watkins | National Library of Australia | 1844454 | https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/catalog/1844454 | |
| Akaroa Harbour | 1881 | Nicholas Chevalier | CAG | |||
| Akaroa Harbour | 1884 | Thomas Cane | CAG | |||
| Saxton and Williams' Matlock Mill at Robinson's Bay | 1870s | Williams family member | Orville Williams | |||
| Le Bons Bay | 1868 or 1869 | William Mathew Hodgkins | ATL | B-066-002 | https://tiaki.natlib.govt.nz/#details=ecatalogue.83144 | |
| Town Jetty, Akaroa | 1868 | William Mathew Hodgkins | ATL | A-027-015 | https://tiaki.natlib.govt.nz/#details=ecatalogue.83957 | |
| Akaroa Harbour, 1876 | 1876 | William Raworth | ATL | |||
| Akaroa Harbour | 1857 | William Watkins | Akaroa Museum | https://www.akaroamuseum.co.nz/collections/artists-and-creators/w-m-n-watkins | ||
| Akaroa Harbour from Barrys Bay | 1874 | William Watkins | Akaroa Museum | https://www.akaroamuseum.co.nz/collections/artists-and-creators/w-m-n-watkins | ||
| Barry's Bay Valley | 1880s | William Watkins | Akaroa Museum | https://www.akaroamuseum.co.nz/collections/artists-and-creators/w-m-n-watkins | ||
| Greens Point, Akaroa | 1850s | Samuel Charles Farr | Akaroa Museum | https://www.akaroamuseum.org.nz/collections/artists-and-creators/s-c-farr | ||
| Akaroa | Undated | Samuel Charles Farr | Akaroa Museum | https://www.akaroamuseum.org.nz/collections/artists-and-creators/s-c-farr |
Banks Peninsula Artists
[edit]The following articles need creating or improving.
- Andris Apse – one of NZ's finest landscape photographers, now a resident of Diamond Harbour
- Margaret Stoddart –
class supposedly, could do with a more artist photos and a better gallery - Nancy Tichborne –
Resident of French Farm and Akaroa, leading NZ watercolorist who died in 2023. It would be great to negotiate an artist photo and sample images for a gallery.
