Table of Contents “...Foreword / Christina Barton -- ESSAYS : Christopher Perkins: beyond 'New Zealand Painting' / Julia Waite -- 'A soil manured for the best plants of art': Christopher Perkins and New Zealand art history / Lachlan Taylor -- WORKS IN FOCUS : Portrait of Annette Stiver, 1931 / Lizzie Bisley -- Portraits of George von Zedlitz, 1933 / Roger Blackley -- Portrait of Nancy Webber, 1936 / Oliver Sutherland and Julia Sutherland -- Frozen flames, 1931 / Christina Barton -- Taranaki, 1931 / Christina Barton -- Maori Meeting, 1932-34 / Christina Barton -- Meditation, 1931 / Priscilla Pitts -- EXHIBITION DOCUMENTATION -- List of works -- Chronology / compiled by Lachlan Taylor -- ARCHIVE / selected and annotated by Christina Barton, Priscilla Pitts and Lachlan Taylor, with assistance from Charles Broughton -- By Perkins ('New art teacher for technical college' ; 'this is a new country' ; 'arrival' ; NZ Academy of Fine Arts Exhibition, 1929 ; 'Vital Art' ; 'Foreword' to Recent Works by Christopher Perkins ; NZ Academy of Fine Arts Exhibition, 1931 ; 'The story of Christopher Perkins' ; 'The temptations of England' ; 'Posthumous glory') -- About Perkins ('Academy welcomes new art instructor' ; 'Some new art' ; 'An earthquake joke' ; P.W. ...”