Melvin Day
Melvin Day studied at Elam School of Fine Arts and became the Director of the National Art Gallery from 1968-1978 and was appointed Government Art Historian from 1978 to 1984. Day travelled extensively yet always returned to the theme of New Zealand landscape, being particularly fond of the hills around Wellington. Though well known for his landscapes he was one of the few painters of his time to explore the subject of still life. His style of modernist landscape and still life, with subtle cubism always stayed true to his own exploratory artistic style.
Still Life 1982 - 1982
Wellington Heads
Orongorongo 82 - 1982
Hariata Ropata-Tangahoe
Bing Dawe
Wilhelmus (Helm) Christiaan Ruifork
Leo Bensemann
Other artists in the collection
- Billy Apple
- Annie Baird
- Stephen Bambury
- Charles Barraud
- Brian Baxter
- Peter Black
- Albert E Bollard
- Nigel Brown
- Fassett Burnett
- Tom Burnett
- Debra Bustin
- George Chance
- Raymond Ching
- Colin Coke
- Derek Cowie
- Perry Davies
- Margaret Dawson
- Austen A Deans
- Claudia Pond Eyley
- Joan Fanning
- Jacqueline Fraser
- Rudolf Gopas
- Brendan Hartwell
- Louise Henderson
- Roland Hipkins
- Ralph Hotere
- Stephen Howard
- Raymond Jennings
- William Moore
- Peter Moriarty
- Pauline Morse
- Milan Mrkusich
- Don R Neilson
- Phillip O'Sullivan
- Evelyn Page
- Fiona Pardington
- Don Peebles
- Peter Peryer
- Claudia Eyley Pond
- Owen R Lee
- Peter Ransom
- Lynette Rawlingson
- John Reynolds
- Marie Shannon
- Mary Shephard
- Elizabeth Stevens
- Eion Stevens
- Helen Stewart
- Terry Stringer
- Llewelyn Summers
- Cynthia Taylor
- Pauline Thompson
- Gary Tricker
- John B Turner
- Gordon Walters
- Malcolm Warr
- Marilynn Webb
- Ans Westra
- A Lois White
- Robin White
- William Laurence Wilson
- Brent Wong
- Adele Younghusband