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Anne NOBLE The Wanganui 1980   Ans WESTRA Ratana Pa. 1963   Bernadino POCCETTI Title Page Drawings of the Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ   C F GOLDIE Ahinata Te Rangitautini. Touhourangi Tribe A Survivor of the Tarawera Eruption 1904   Edward BURNE-JONES Pastel Design for portion of picture The Fountain of Youth   Edward FRISTROM Pumpkin Cottage Circa 1910   Eugen Von BLAAS Curiosity 1891   Frank DENTON Bush Track (Kopoutaroa)   Gottfried Lindauer Maori Portrait 1876   Laurence ABERHART Nature Morte (silence) 1986   Megan JENKINSON Evolution of the Species 1983   Peter PERYER Lion Copenhagen   Petrus VAN DER VELDEN Horse Circa 1890   Richard WOTTON Attic Auckland 1986   Robert McLEOD Tribal Fears 1990   UNKNOWN after Raphael Madonna Della Sedia   Warren VISCOE The Taxidermist   Wayne BARRAR Dividing barriers crystallizing ponds 1987   William RICHMOND A Greek Water Carrier in Egypt   Yvonne TODD Susan Blunton 2002   after Bartolomeo SCHEDONE Cupid Awakes   attr. Domenico PIOLA The Appearance of the Virgin to St. Maurice

Today there are more than 5,500 artworks in the Sarjeant Gallery's collections. Initially collecting focused on 19th and early 20th century British and European art but, given the expansive terms of the will of our founding benefactor Henry Sarjeant, the entire collection now spans Sixteenth Century European Art through to Twenty-first Century New Zealand Art. Included in the Collections are works in all media – thousands of historic and modern works on paper; New Zealand and international sculptures, pottery, ceramics and glass; bronze works; video art and paintings by contemporary artists and old masters. Notable among these are works by: Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones RA, Domenico Piola, Sir Frank Brangwyn RA, Bernadino Poccetti, Gaspard Dughet, Sir William Richmond RA, William Etty, Lelio Orsi, Frederick Goodall RA, Augustus John RA and many others. From these works and more, the Sarjeant Gallery also generates touring exhibitions.

Work by New Zealand artists was first acquired in 1926 and, more assiduously from 1945, the gallery made it its policy to focus on collecting New Zealand art. Not surprisingly then, outside of the main centres, the Sarjeant, on Wanganui’s behalf, has one of the most complete surveys of New Zealand art history in the country. This is a much sought after resource and we often loan out our collection to institutions. The existing New Zealand collection is a significant and comprehensive holding of art from the 1840s until the present day. The Sarjeant’s Collections include works by Colin McCahon, Ralph Hotere, Pat Hanly, Charles Frederick Goldie, Gottfried Lindauer, Petrus Van Der Velden and many others. Major holdings of individual artists include Gretchen Albrecht, Robert McLeod, Warren Viscoe and Rodney Fumpston.

Edith Marion Collier Loan Collection

The Sarjeant Gallery has committed half of the Front Bay to the ongoing display and storage of the Edith Marion Collier Loan Collection. The collection was placed on long term loan with the Sarjeant Gallery in 1985, the centennial of Edith Collier's birth, by the kind donation of Collier family members. The Loan Collection includes some 500 drawings, watercolours, gouaches, oil paintings, prints, personal ephemera, photographs and correspondence, as well as the artists library. The aim of the Collier Bay is to provide a high profile for Edith Collier's art and to make it accessible to both the donors and the general public.

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