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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

2,725 works

Arnold Mason

Raymond McIntyre, 1919

Painting of a curved bay with turquoise water, a wooded headland on the left and rolling hills under a cloudy sky.

Incoming tide, Mahurangi

Claus Edvard Friström, 1905

Painting of a small waterfall over rocky ledges beneath dense trees, with a dark pool reflecting the cliff and foliage.

The waterfall

Philip Steer, 1896

Painting of a woman in a pink dress and hat on a sandy shore, with a child in white by tidal pools and the sea beyond.

By summer seas

Charles Sims, 1904

Oil portrait of a seated woman in a wide-brimmed flowered hat, pink and green gown and white shawl, resting on a chair arm.

Portrait of Irene Mandl

John Quincy Adams, 1905

Muted painting of a long stone garden wall beside a house, bare trees and a pale overcast sky over an open field.

The garden wall

Charles Holmes, 1909

Painting of white silica terraces with turquoise pools below mountains, small figures and trees at left, cloudy sky.

White Terraces

Charles Blomfield, 1882

Loose oil still life of pink roses and green leaves resting on a pale cloth against a muted background, in a gold frame.

Roses

Grace Joel, 1895

Small oil painting of hills and a snow-capped mountain above blue water under a pale sky, by Tom Roberts.

In Quarantine, Wellington

Tom Roberts, 1900

Painting of a red-haired girl in a pink ruffled dress with a white sash, standing before a dark background and a loose painte

Girl in pink

George Henry, 1907

Dusk landscape with tall dark trees, a pale sky, and three small figures near a dirt track in the foreground.

Waiting for darkness

David Farquharson

Painting of a chalk quarry cliff with orange and white strata, a horse and cart on a road, and green fields below.

The chalk cliff

Frederick Porter, 1918

Painting of a calm lake with a small sailboat, forested hills and snow-capped mountains under a cloudy sky.

Lake Manapouri

William Baker, 1900

Painting of stepped white mineral terraces above a golden pool, with a canoe of figures on the water and wooded hills.

The Terraces (the pink terraces)

Charles Blomfield, 1885

Oil painting of a young girl with long dark hair in a white blouse, head bowed, seated before an olive interior.

Figure of a young girl

Raymond McIntyre, 1908

Painting of a river with rocks and a large tree on the right bank under a pink and turquoise sky.

Hutt River

James Nairn, 1892

Oil painting of a sunlit forest path framed by two large tree trunks, with dappled light on green foliage.

Peel Forest

Archibald Nicoll

Oil self portrait of a man in a grey hat and dark jacket with polka-dot bow tie, in a room with framed pictures.

Self portrait

Raymond McIntyre, 1915

Painting of a young woman and a man in a hat beside a wooden fence under a leafy tree, with water and a house behind.

A summer idyll

James Nairn, 1903

Muted painting of a still loch with distant grey hills, pale sand and rocks in the foreground under an overcast sky.

Loch Nell

David Young Cameron, 1930

Loose painted self portrait of a man with tousled hair, orange scarf and brown coat against a warm brown background.

Self portrait

Frederick Porter, 1915

Painting of a rushing mountain stream over boulders in a gorge, with dark trees on the right and a rocky hillside on the left

Mountain Stream, Otira Gorge

Petrus van der Velden, 1893

Painting of a woman in a dark feathered hat against a muted green interior, loosely brushed in olive and pink tones.

The blue hat

Walter Sickert, 1914

Oil painting of a nude child lying on fur, gazing at a goldfish in a round glass bowl.

Idlesse

Thomas Benjamin Kennington, 1887

Dark oil study of two bearded men in hats, one holding a palette, in a dim interior.

Study of the artist at work

Petrus van der Velden, 1904

Oil portrait of a woman with a blue ribbon in her hair and a blue shawl draped off one shoulder, against grey-green.

The blue ribbon

Mrs Mary Tripe, 1926

Painting of a young girl with long auburn hair in a white blouse, gazing upward with one hand at her chest.

Little Nell

Grace Joel, 1895

Painting of a pink half-timbered inn behind a picket fence, with a blue and cream path and green trees framing it.

The old inn

Raymond McIntyre, 1918

Painting of stepped pink terraces with blue pools, steam rising from hills, a lake, and a canoe under a cloudy sky.

Pink Terraces

Charles Blomfield, 1886

Painting of a three-masted ship towed by a steamer past hills at sunset, with calm water and a pink sky.

Port Nicholson Heads

John Gibb, 1886