Objects
Art and Object have just released their Modernism in New Zealand Catalogue.
It highlights a key period (1940s - 1970s) in the development of New Zealand visual art, design, ceramics and applied arts and features two superb collections - the NZ design collection of well known collector and industry figure Rodney Robertson and the magnificent William Vance archive collection of Theo Schoon Cave Art from the late 1940s.
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