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Ravenscar house : a biography

Title
Ravenscar house : a biography / Sally Blundell.
Author
Blundell, Sally, 1963-
Publication
  • Christchurch, New Zealand : Canterbury University Press, 2022.
  • ©2022

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Description
223 pages : colour illustrations; 26 cm
Summary
"Ravenscar House: A biography explores the story of this unique, purpose-built house museum as the realisation of a long-held dream and the expression of a heart-warming act of public philanthropy. Christchurch journalist and writer Sally Blundell tells the compelling story of Jim and Susan Wakefield, whose vision was to share with their community the eclectic and impressive collection of art and artefacts that they had endowed to the charitable Ravenscar Trust. After their house on Scarborough Hill was demolished following the Canterbury earthquakes, the couple were determined to commission a new house museum, filled with a wide range of works by leading New Zealand artists such as Frances Hodgkins, Colin McCahon and Bill Sutton - and many more. Designed by renowned architects Patterson Associates, the Wakefields' bold but elegant addition to the city was opened in 2021"--Publisher's website.
Subject
  • Wakefield, Jim, -2020
  • Wakefield, Susan Mary
  • Ravenscar House (Gallery)
  • Art museum architecture > Christchurch
  • Art museums > Christchurch > Design and construction
  • Painting, New Zealand
  • Peinture néo-zélandaise
  • Art museum architecture
  • Art museums > Design and construction
  • New Zealand > Christchurch
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Foreword Steve Wakefield, chair Ravenscar Trust -- Foreword Anthony Wright, director Canterbury Museum -- Preface : a biography of a building -- Chapter One : a coat with silver buttons -- Chapter Two : Dream of the south -- Chapter Three : Ravenscar Trust Collection -- Chapter Four : Search for a new home -- Chapter Five : The new Ravenscar House -- Conversation with Andrew Patterson - Conclusion From house to house museum
Call Number
N3976
ISBN
  • 9781988503226
  • 1988503221
LCCN
40031105098
OCLC
  • on1286024872
  • 1286024872
  • SCSB-14341566
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries