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Stage designs for Peer Gynt. Series 1. 08.
Upper left (u.l.) in ballpoint pen: Act 4 Scenes 1 & 2, Morocco & Wrecked; l.r. in ballpoint pen: 8
Stage designs for Peer Gynt. Series 1. 07.
Upper centre (u.c.) in pencil: Act 3 Scene 3, Death of Aase; l.r. in pencil: 7
Stage designs for Peer Gynt. Series 1. 06.
Upper left (u.l.) in ballpoint pen: Act 3 Scene 2, The Parting; l.r. in ballpoint pen: 6
Stage designs for Peer Gynt. Series 1. 05.
Upper centre (u.c.) in pencil: Act 3 Scene 1, The Casting Ladle; l.r. in pencil: 5
Stage designs for Peer Gynt. Series 1. 04.
Upper left (u.l.) in black crayon: Act 2 Scene 3, Troll King; l.r in ballpoint pen: 4
Stage designs for Peer Gynt. Series 1. 03.
Upper left (u.l.) in pencil: Act 2 Scene 1 The Search and Act 2 Scene 2, The Green Woman; l.c. in ballpoint pen: [colour notes]; l.r. in pencil: 3
Stage designs for Peer Gynt. Series 1. 02.
Upper centre (u.c.) in ballpoint pen: Act 1 Scene 2 Wedding day; l.r. in ballpoint pen: 2; verso: [unfinished sketch]
Stage designs for Peer Gynt. Series 1. 01.
Upper centre (u.c.) in pencil: Act 1 Scene 1, Mother & Son; l.r. in pencil: 1
Cover designs for Peer Gynt.
Photomechanical copy of theatre programme for which the original sketch is not extant.
Cover designs for Peer Gynt.
inverted lower left with brush: McCahon; upper centre with brush: Peer Gynt; lower centre with brush: by Henrik Ibsen; verso: [pencil & watercolour landscape sketch]
Cover designs for Peer Gynt.
Upper centre with brush: Peer Gynt; lower centre with brush: by Henrik Ibsen.
Cover designs for Peer Gynt.
Inverted lower right with brush: McCahon; upper centre with brush: Peer Gynt; lower centre with brush: by Henrik Ibsen.
Stage designs for The Glass Menagerie.
Lower left (l.l.) in ballpoint pen: C. McCahon; l.c. in ballpoint pen: The Glass Menageries 1956; verso: [unfinished sketch]
Stage designs for The Glass Menagerie.
Lower left (l.l.) in ballpoint pen: C. McCahon; l.c. in ballpoint pen: The Glass Menagerie 1956; u.c. in ballpoint pen: Cyclorama [variously inscribed throughout]
Stage designs for The Glass Menagerie.
Lower left (l.l.) in ballpoint pen: The Glass Menageries 1956; l.c. in ballpoint pen: C. McCahon; through image in ballpoint pen: [various inscriptions]
Stage designs for The Glass Menagerie.
Lower left (l.l.) in ballpoint pen: C.McCahon The Glass Menagerie 1956; verso: [unfinished pencil sketch]
Stage designs for The Glass Menagerie.
Lower left (l.l.) in ballpoint pen: A gentleman calls; l.c. in ballpoint pen: The Glass Menagerie; l.r. in ballpoint pen: C.McCahon 1956; verso in pencil: door [unfinished pencil sketch]
Stage designs for The Glass Menagerie.
Lower left (l.l.) in ballpoint pen: C. McCahon, 1956; l.c. in ballpoint pen: Final version; u.l. in charcoal: The Glass Menagerie; verso in pencil & red ballpoint pen: [production memoranda]
Stage designs for The Glass Menagerie.
Lower left (l.l.) in ballpoint pen: C.McCahon The Glass Menagerie 1956.
Te tangi o te pipiwhararua. (The song of the shining cuckoo) from a poem by Tangirau Hotere.
This is one of McCahon's major works of the mid-1970s, along with the Urewera Mural, the Blind series, and the Parihaka Triptych. It has several motivations and triggers. The primary one is the shining cuckoo's song, spoken of in a Maori poem passed…
Swan Lake, stage design 2.
Verso each pair in pencil: A B C D [respectively].
Sketch plan relating to festival of Baxter’s plays in Wellington.
Inscribed throughout. Verso reproductions of paintings.
A piece of Muriwai canvas - Wall of death.
Upper centre (u.c.): A piece of Muriwai canvas; c.: Wall of death.
Te Whiti.
Lower left (l.l.) in pencil: C.McC; u.l. in pencil: Te Whiti; u.c. in pencil: As I pass the border, how can I forbear from turning back my head, Hsu Lan [jottings throughout].
Te Whiti.
Lower left (l.l.) in pencil: C.McC; u.l. in pencil: Te Whiti; l.c. in pencil: To be hung like this.