Kathleen's Collection: the Kathleen Kirkby Collection comprises 26 works that were collected by Kathleen Kirkby and her father, Sir Robert Anderson, throughout their lives.
The collection is now housed in the family home, Anderson Park Art Gallery, in Invercargill.
The collection is an assortment of works often seen in a domestic collection. Both Kathleen and her father had differing tastes in art.
Kathleen favoured works by New Zealand women artists such as Frances Hodgkins, M.O. Stoddart and Airini Vane, as well as works that had a femininity, or sentimental quality about them.
It is likely the European etchings were collected by Robert Anderson on his travels.