Frederick Halford Coventry b. 19 January 1905

Also known as F.H. Coventry
  • Artist (Carver),
  • Artist (Glass & metal Artist / Designer),
  • Designer (Graphic Designer),
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator),
  • Artist (Draughtsman),
  • Artist (Printmaker),
  • Artist (Painter)
A painter, muralist, stained glass artist, glass painter & etcher, printmaker, poster-designer, art teacher, book-illustrator and designer, Frederick Halford Coventry's art practice encompassed both the fine art and commercial art sectors.
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creator of
The European in New Zealand before 1840; The Land Is Cleared and Cultivated; The Beginning of Organised Settlement; The Close of New Zealand's First Century, mural paintings
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Oil & gold leaf. For Government Court at the New Zealand Centennial Exhibition, Wellington. Not extant, see Art In New Zealand, Vol XII, No 1, September 1932, pp. 29-30. Exhibited at An Exhibition of Mural Decorations, Paintings, Engravings and Drawings by F.H. Coventry, New Zealand House, London, 1950 (Cat Nos. A, B, 1-8).

 
creator of
Make the Most of Autumn Days
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Colour lithograph poster Client Southern Railways.

 
creator of
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New Zealand Shipping Company Almanac, illustrations

 
creator of
Hauhau Ritual Dance
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Pen & ink frontispiece H. J. Harrop, England and the Maori Wars, London: New Zealand News, 1937.

 
creator of
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Etched Glass Decorative Scheme for 1st class verandah Café, RMS Orcades I, screen in heat moulded glass. Client Orient Steam Navigation Company. Painting of the work in the artist’s home, with working drawing exhibited in An Exhibition of Mural Decorations, Paintings, Engravings and Drawings by F.H. Coventry, New Zealand House, London, 1950 (Cat Nos. I 1-2).Photograph of glass screen in situ exhibited in Art On The Liners Exhibition, Southampton City Art Gallery, 1986.

 
creator of
Portrait of Stella
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Pencil drawing. Exhibited at Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, 1936, (cat. 1166); An Exhibition of Mural Decorations, Paintings, Engravings and Drawings by F.H. Coventry, New Zealand House, London, 1950 (Cat No. K1). Model was Coventry’s step-daughter.

 
creator of
Orient Line Tours in Egypt
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Colour lithograph poster. Client Orient Line. Reproduced in Tom Purvis, Poster Progress, London: The Studio Publications Ltd, 1939, p. 121.

 
creator of
Le Caire, Chemins De Fer De L'État Égyptian
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Colour lithograph poster Client Egyptian State Railways, Cairo. Reproduced in Tom Purvis, Poster Progress, London: The Studio Publications Ltd, 1939, p. 121; Abderrahman Slaoui, The Orientalist Poster, Casablanca: Malika Editions, 1997, p. 47; Gail Ross, Art & Industry: Frederick Halford Coventry, Art New Zealand, No. 125, Summer 2007-2008, p. 63.

 
creator of
It's Summer Time in Australia
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Colour lithograph poster. Client Orient Line. Reproduced in Tom Purvis, Poster Progress, London: The Studio Publications Ltd, 1939, p. 64

 
creator of
Man in Armchair
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Pencil drawing Reproduced in F.H. Coventry’s Drawings, Art In Australia, No 55, 1934, p. 17.

 
creator of
A Baby
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Pencil drawing. Reproduced in F.H. Coventry’s Drawings, Art In Australia, No 55, 1934, p. 18.

 
creator of
Study of a Beech Tree in Winter,
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Pencil drawing. Reproduced in F. Coventry, “Poster Designing”, Art In New Zealand, Vol VI, No 3, March 1934, p. 135.

 
creator of
Rugby by Howard Marshall
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Lithograph poster Client Daily Telegraph, London. Reproduced in F. Coventry, “Poster Designing”, Art In New Zealand, Vol VI, No 3, March 1934, p. 135.

 
creator of
Sailor, Orient Line Cruises
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Colour lithograph poster. Client Orient Line, London. Reproduced in F. Coventry, “Poster Designing”, Art In New Zealand, Vol VI, No 3, March 1934, p. 134.

 
creator of
Winter Sunshine
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Colour lithograph poster. Client Southern Railways. Exhibited at the British Art In Industry Exhibition 1935, Royal Academy. Reproduced in F. Coventry, “Poster Designing”, Art In New Zealand, Vol VI, No 3, March 1934, p. 133; Gail Ross, Art & Industry: Frederick Halford Coventry, Art New Zealand, No. 125, Summer 2007-2008, p. 61.

 
creator of
Mrs Waley
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Pencil drawing

 
creator of
The Last Day, Epsom
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Exhibited at Centennial Exhibition of International and New Zealand Art, Wellington, 1939 (cat. 354).

 
creator of
Rt .Hon. J.W. Hills
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Pencil drawing. Exhibited at Centennial Exhibition of International and New Zealand Art, Wellington, 1939 (cat. 355).

 
creator of
The Rev. C.C. Martindale
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Pencil drawing. Commissioned for Campion Hall, Oxford.

 
creator of
Dr Baillie, The Very Rev. The Dean of Windsor
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Pencil drawing. Exhibited at Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, 1932, (cat. 1036).

 
creator of
Bad Smell
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Pencil drawing. A self-portrait entered in the Prix-de-Rome. Exhibited in Drawings & Engravings by F.H. Coventry Exhibition, Twenty-One Gallery, London, 1930 (cat. 33).

 
creator of
Portrait of Gwen (Miss Gwen Ridley)
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Pencil drawing Exhibited in Drawings & Engravings by F.H. Coventry Exhibition, Twenty-One Gallery, London, 1930 (cat. 32); and Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, 1932, (cat. 1043).

 
creator of
The Coronation in a Poor Street
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Drawing. Exhibited at Exhibition of Mural Decorations, Paintings, Engravings and Drawings by F.H. Coventry, New Zealand House, London, 1950 (Cat No. M6.)

 
creator of
Portrait of Alan Marshall
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Drawing Exhibited at Exhibition of Mural Decorations, Paintings, Engravings and Drawings by F.H. Coventry, New Zealand House, London, 1950 (Cat No. M5.)

 
creator of
Paper-bark Tree
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Drawing Exhibited at Exhibition of Mural Decorations, Paintings, Engravings and Drawings by F.H. Coventry, New Zealand House, London, 1950 (Cat No. M4.)

 
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