{{Short description|New Zealand artist (1891–1933)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2024}} {{Use New Zealand English|date=May 2024}} {{Infobox person | name = Thomas Gulliver | image = Life class at the Quion Club 1919.png | caption = Gulliver photographed in 1919 (fifth from left) | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth year|1891}} | birth_place = Auckland, New Zealand | death_date = {{death year and age|1933|1891}} | death_place = Auckland, New Zealand | occupation = Artist, civil engineer | website = | imagesize = | other_names = | years_active = {{circa|1910}}–{{circa|1930}} }} '''Thomas Ralph de Vere Gulliver''' (1891–1933) was a New Zealand printmaker, photographer and railway engineer.{{sfn|Ross|2006|p=22}} Despite considering himself an amateur,<ref name=NZHerald-Obit>{{citation|title=Obituary: Mr T. R. de V. Gulliver: Noted Auckland Artist|page=12|language=en|work=The New Zealand Herald|date=1933-08-31|access-date=2024-05-18|url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZH19330831.2.146}}</ref> he was a leading authority in New Zealand on graphic arts in his time.<ref name=UoA-bio>{{citation|title=Collection: Robin Lush collection of Thomas Gulliver photographs|language=en|work=Auckland University Manuscripts and Archives|access-date=2024-05-17|url=https://archives.library.auckland.ac.nz/repositories/4/resources/1099|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230127185059/https://archives.library.auckland.ac.nz/repositories/4/resources/1099|archive-date=2023-01-27}}</ref>{{sfn|Vangioni|2023|p=40}}{{sfn|Ross|2006|p=24}}
With his friend Arnold Goodwin, Gulliver was the co-founder of the Quoin Club in 1916, which worked to promote printmaking as an art form through the following decade.{{sfn|Ross|2006|p=21}}
Gulliver mostly worked in the medium of etched and engraved woodblock printing, but also experimented with photography and sketching.<ref name=UoA-bio/> The Auckland Art Gallery recognised him as Honorary Curator of the Print Collection for his assistance to them in curating their collection in the late 1920s.<ref name=UoA-bio/>
Gulliver died of cancer in 1933.<ref>{{citation|title=Thomas Ralph De Vere Gulliver|date=1933|language=en|work=New Zealand, Cemetery Records, 1800–2007|access-date=2024-05-18|url=https://www.ancestrylibrary.com/discoveryui-content/view/1913257:60547?tid=&pid=&queryId=3808e016-04ab-4c9b-9ba6-3b5e0d566069&_phsrc=mBd1&_phstart=successSource|via=Ancestry Library}}</ref><ref name=NZHerald-Obit/>
==Art Gallery== <gallery mode="packed" heights="154"> File:Ex-libris T.V. Gulliver - Thomas Ralph de Vere Gulliver.jpg|Ex Libris T. V. Gulliver. Woodcut File:Ex-libris John Barr - Thomas Ralph de Vere Gulliver.jpg|Ex Libris John Barr (1887–1971). Woodcut </gallery>
==References== ===Bibliography=== * {{citation |title=Ink on Paper: Aotearoa New Zealand printmakers of the modern era |language=en |publisher=Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū |isbn=9781877375774 |publication-place=Christchurch |first1=Peter |last1=Vangioni |date=2023 |url=https://christchurchartgallery.org.nz/media/uploads/2023_06/Ink_on_Paper-low_res.pdf |access-date=2024-05-18 |page=40 }} * {{cite thesis |last=Ross |first=Gail Macdonald |date=2006 |title=New Zealand Prints 1900–1950: An unseen heritage |degree=PhD |publisher=University of Canterbury |url=https://ir.canterbury.ac.nz/bitstreams/16b5ccbd-5315-451b-b125-8dc314ae1e5f/download |access-date=2024-05-18 }}
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