Stewart Bell Maclennan (14 May 1903 – 6 July 1973) was a New Zealand

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and was a director of the

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. Maclennan was born in

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on 14 May 1903. He received his art training at the Dunedin School of Art and the

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, London. In 1946 he became the education officer at the National Art Gallery, and was appointed director two years later. He remained in that role until 1968. He was a member of the Council of the

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from 1943 to 1949, and vice-president from 1949 to 1959. In the 1968 Queen's Birthday Honours, Maclennan was appointed an

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, in recognition of his service as director of the National Art Gallery. Maclennan died on 6 July 1973, and his ashes were buried at

Mākara Mākara is a locality located at the western edge of Wellington, New Zealand, close to the shore of the Tasman Sea. The suburb is named after the Mākara Stream (''mā'' is Māori for white, ''kara'' is a kind of greywacke stone). The Wellington ...

Cemetery.

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