Images from Bloomsbury South: the Arts in Christchurch 1933-1953 (AUP), by Peter Simpson.
Group members and friends. Rata Lovell Smith at left, Ngaio Marsh centre in trousers and beret, Margaret Frankel crouching with Toss Woollaston painting Figures from Life, Louise Henderson on right. Photo by Olivia Spencer Bower, 1936.
Photograph of Bill Sutton's Homage to Frances Hodgkins (destroyed), showing from left: Sutton, Doris Lusk, Colin McCahon, Margaret Frankel (with Pleasure Garden), Olivia Spencer Bower on right
Colin McCahon in 1948 with The Virgin Compared in background. Photo by Theo Schoon.
Charles Brasch with Colin McCahon's Otago Peninsula.
James K Baxter at around 20. Photo by Clifton Firth.
Allen Curnow, drawing by Rita Angus, as published in Book 5, 1942
Denis Glover printing at the Caxton Press, c 1936. Photo by Jean Bertram.
Leo Bensemann, Peggy Bensemann and Rita Angus at 97 Cambridge Terrace, 1938. (Lawrence Baigent, who took the photo, in Bensemann portrait on the wall.)
Ursula Bethell in her garden at Rise Cottage.
Cast of Hamlet in Modern Dress, 1943. Douglas Lilburn and Ngaio Marsh fourth and fifth from left in front row.
The images in this gallery are used with permission and are subject to copyright conditions.
