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Painting of James Crichton VC
Painting of James Crichton VC
Damaged war art
Examples of badly-damaged paper sketches in New Zealand's National Collection of War Art
Establishing a collection - First World War art
Following the end of the war, attention turned to where New Zealand's official First World War art collection would be stored. Plans for a National War Memorial Museum in Wellington were never completed, leaving the collection in limbo for the next thirty years
International war art donated to NZ
International war art donated to New Zealand following the First World War
Artists in Uniform exhibition, 1943
Video about the 'Artists in Uniform' art exhibition held in New Zealand during the Second World War
Sunken road near Solesmes by George Edmund Butler
Sunken road near Solesmes by George Edmund Butler, October 1918
Menin Road from Hooge Crater by George Edmund Butler
Menin Road from Hooge Crater by George Edmund Butler, circa 1918
Butte de Polygon by George Edmund Butler
Butte de Polygon by George Edmund Butler, 1920.
George Edmund Butler

George Edmund Butler became New Zealand’s second official war artist in August 1918 – as it turned out, just three months before the end of the war. There are almost 100 of his works in New Zealand's National Collection of War Art, making him this country's most prolific First World War artist.

George Edmund Butler
Artist George Edumnd Butler alongside one of his paintings, circa 1932
Dugouts Vlamentinghe, Belgium by Cecil Trevithick
Dugouts Vlamentinghe, Belgium by Cecil Trevithick, 17 February 1918
New Zealanders graves in Codford churchyard by Frederick Cumberworth
New Zealanders graves in Codford churchyard by Frederick Herbert Cumberworth, circa 1918
NZ Military HQ Bloomsbury Square, London by G.E. Woolley
NZ Military HQ Bloomsbury Square, London by G. E. Woolley, 1919.
With the Anzac Wireless Squadron in Persia by F. L. McFarlane
With the Anzac Wireless Squadron in Persia by H. M. McFarlane, circa 1918.
Light Diet cartoon, 1918
Cartoon drawn by Ernest Herber Thompson for his 1918 publication Light Diet: 150 Caricatures and Sketches Perpetrated by a New Zealand Artist in and out of Hospital.
Chronicles of the N.Z.E.F. cartoon
Cartoon entitled 'Anxiety' from the Chronicles of the N.Z.E.F.., 30 August 1916
Frances Hodgkins
Frances Hodgkins painting in her studio in Bowen Street, Wellington, circa 1905.
Nugent Welch

Nugent Herrmann Welch was New Zealand’s first ‘war artist.’ The 32 works that he made as an official war artist stand as a unique and highly personal record of New Zealand’s involvement in the First World War from the perspective of a soldier who served within the New Zealand Expeditionary Force (NZEF).

Nugent Welch
Portrait of Nugent Hermann Welch by Victor Leonard William Mitchell
Unofficial war art - First World War art
New Zealand soldiers used art to interpret the experience of the war for an audience of noncombatant civilians. Civilian artists in turn produced works that responded to and explored the public’s perception of the war.

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