More Info →'The former director of the Manawatu Art Gallery, Mr I. E. North'

Description

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 2 April 1971. 'The former director of the Manawatu Art Gallery, Mr I. E. North, hangs one of the paintings in the Centenary exhibition, which will be on display for three weeks, until April 23.'

Ian North (1945-2024) was the director of the Manawatū Art Gallery from July 1969 to May 1971. He left Palmerston North to take up a curatorial position at the Art Gallery of South Australia. North would achieve renown in Australia as an artist, curator, writer and academic.

The Centenary Exhibition was a major exhibition of contemporary New Zealand art organised as part of Palmerston North’s centennial celebrations. North is shown holding Michael Smither's painting Sarah with Yellow Ball (1971), which the gallery acquired from the exhibition.

Identification

Object type

Image

Content type

Image > B+W negative

Archive

Manawatū Evening Standard Negative Collection

Date

April 3, 1971

Digitisation ID

2024N_2017-20_AF244_042362

Format

B&W negative