[Collection of pencil illustrations of New Zealand aviators]

Maker and role
Stan J. Woods, Artist
 Production date
1970s

Object detail

Accession number
COL-2019-2
Maker
Stan J. Woods
Production period
1970s
Description
Collection level record of a series of 40 original pencil illustrations created by Stan Woods of portraits of significant New Zealand Aviators. Illustrations were created as a tribute to New Zealand's aviation history for display in MOTAT's Pioneers of Aviation exhibition that ran at MOTAT site 1 from the 1970's to 2013.


Illustrations include, group portraits of:

Arthur, Charles and John Brazier
Harry Litchfield, Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith, Charles Ulm, Tom McWilliams and illustration of "The Southern Cross" to commemorate the First Trans-Tasman flight on September 10th 1928.
George Hood and John Moncrieff
Sir Keith Park in Hawker Hurricane OK 1
Walsh Brothers

Individual portraits of:

Jean Batten
George B. Bolt O.B.E. x2
Keith Caldwell
Sir Francis Chichester
Sir Ralph Cochrane
Euan Dickson
Lawson Field
Percy Fisher
E A 'Gibby' Gibson
Doug Greig
Joe Hammond
Ted Harvie
Sir Leonard Isitt
Oswald George James
Fred Ladd
F. J. 'Popeye' Lucas
M.C. (Mac) McGregor
Bert Mercer
Bertram Ogilvie
Sir Keith Park
Richard Pearse x2
Herbert Pither
Alan Prichard
W.B. Rhodes-Moorhouse
Sir Geoffrey Roberts
Arthur Schaef
J.W. Scotland
Piet van Asch
Leo White
Reg White
Sir Henry Wigley
Rodolph Wigley
Sir Henry Wigram
Marks
Stan Woods Signature
Media/Materials
Processed Material/Paper
Physical description
38 sheets (unframed) : illustrations (black and white) ;
44 x 59 cm
1 sheet (unframed) : illustrations (black and white) ; 54 x 69 cm
1 sheet (unframed) : illustrations (black and white) ; 66 x 83 cm
Record level
Collection
Credit Line
Stan J. Woods. 1970s. [Collection of pencil illustrations of New Zealand aviators], COL-2019-2. Walsh Memorial Library, The Museum of Transport and Technology (MOTAT).
Production place
New Zealand
Current rights
All Rights Reserved

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Aviators New Zealand Museum of Transport and Technology Pioneers of Aviation Pavilion History Batten, Jean Gardner, 1909-1982 Park, Keith Rodney, Sir, 1892-1975 Isitt, Leonard Monk, Sir, 1891-1976 McGregor, Malcolm Charles, 1896-1936 Ladd, Fred (Frederick Patrick), 1908-1989 White, Leo Lemuel, 1906-1967 White, Reginald Harry, 1883 -1962 Field, Lawson Lysnar Copland, 1896-1981 Prichard, Alan Marcus Brazier, Charles Hammond, 1909-1967 Brazier, Arthur Herbert Thomas, 1907-1966 Brazier, John Benjamin Roberts, Geoffrey Newland, Sir, 1906-1995 Pearse, Richard William, 1877-1953 Lucas, F. J. (Frederick John), 1915-1993 Hawker Hurricane Fisher, Percy Pither, Herbert John Ogilvie, Bertram Schaef, Arthur Waldermar, 1867-1940 New Zealand Flying School (Walsh Bros. & Dexter) Limited, 1915-1924 Walsh, Vivian Claude, 1887-1950 Walsh, Austin Leonard (Leo), 1881-1951 Hammond, Joseph Joel (Joe), Captain. 1886 -1918 Scotland, James William Humphrys, 1891-1963 Chichester, Francis, Sir, 1901-1972 Dickson, Euan, 1892-1980 Rhodes-Moorhouse, William Barnard, 1887-1915 Caldwell, Keith Logan, 1895-1980 Wigram, Henry Francis, Sir, 1857-1934 Cochrane, Ralph Alexander, Sir, 1895-1977 Bolt, George Bruce, 1893-1963 James, Oswald George, 1919-2007 Van Asch, Henry Piet Drury, 1911-1996 Mercer, James Cuthbert (Bert) 1886-1944 Harvie, Edgar Francis (Teddy), 1912-1985 Wigley, Henry Rodolph, Sir, 1913-1980 Wigley, Rodolph Lysaght, 1881-1946 Gibson, Esmond Allen, 1896-1981 Moncrieff, John Robert, 1899-1928 Hood, George Hood, George, Captain, 1893-1928 Greig, Douglas Alexander, 1916-

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