Stewart Bell Maclennan (14 May 1903 – 6 July 1973) was a New Zealand
artist
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and was a director of the
National Art Gallery of New Zealand
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Maclennan was born in
Dunedin
Dunedin ( ; mi, Ōtepoti) is the second-largest city in the South Island of New Zealand (after Christchurch), and the principal city of the Otago region. Its name comes from , the Scottish Gaelic name for Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland. Th ...
on 14 May 1903.
He received his art training at the Dunedin School of Art and the
Royal College of Art
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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
New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts
The New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts (also referred to as the Wellington Art Society) was founded in Wellington in July 1882 as The Fine Arts Association of New Zealand. Founding artists included painters William Beetham (first president of the Ass ...
from 1943 to 1949, and vice-president from 1949 to 1959.
In the
1968 Queen's Birthday Honours, Maclennan was appointed an
Officer of the Order of the British Empire
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and public service outside the civil service. It was established o ...
, 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.
References
1903 births
1973 deaths
New Zealand painters
20th-century New Zealand painters
20th-century New Zealand male artists
New Zealand Officers of the Order of the British Empire
Burials at Makara Cemetery
Artists from Dunedin
Alumni of the Royal College of Art
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