Peter McLeavey

Peter Joseph John McLeavey ONZM (21 September 1936 – 12 November 2015) was a New Zealand art dealer and advocate based in Wellington.

[2] Jeremy Diggle, Professor of Fine Arts at Massey University, called McLeavey "the most important commercial gallerist New Zealand has ever had, effectively the pre-eminent publisher of modern New Zealand art in the past 50 years".

[7] Among his major sales were Colin McCahon's Northland Panels to the then National Art Gallery (now the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa) in 1978.

[8] Over the years Peter McLeavey ran his gallery he exhibited some of the key names in New Zealand art including: Laurence Aberhardt, Billy Apple, Don Binney, Julian Dashper, Neil Dawson, Jacqueline Fraser, Bill Hammond, Jeffrey Harris, Pat Hanly, Michael Illingworth, Robert Jesson, Richard Killeen, Tony Lane, Allen Maddox, Colin McCahon, Milan MrKusich, Peter Peryer, John Reynolds, Peter Robinson, Ian Scott, Carl Sydow, Ray Thorburn, Yvonne Todd, Charles Tole, Warren Viscoe, Gordon Walters, Robin White and Toss Wollaston.

[9] The Peter McLeavey Gallery currently represents some of New Zealand's best-known modern and contemporary artists, including Laurence Aberhart, Bill Hammond, Richard Killeen, Colin McCahon, Yvonne Todd, Robin White, Toss Woollaston,[10] and Jeffrey Harris.