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Paintings by Colin McCahon - poster with text from the [New Zealand Listener], March 5 1948.
Originally used for the 1947 exhibition in Dunedin, but presumably modified with Listener text for the 1948 exhibition in the Wellington Public Library.
Festival Ballet for the Art Gallery.
Lower left (l.l.) with chalk: McCahon 55; u.l. in chalk: Festival Ballet for the Art Gallery; verso in chalk: [plan of stage]
Stage designs for Peer Gynt. Series 2. b.
Inscribed throughout: [stage directions]
Stage designs for Peer Gynt. Series 2. a.
Inscribed throughout: [stage directions]
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.
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.
Te Whiti.
Lower left (l.l.) in pencil: C.McC; u.l. in pencil: Te Whiti; inscribed throughout.
Catherine Anne McCahon, 6 weeks old today, thursday, may 17.
16 in The Jack & Ethel McCahon gift to the Hocken LibraryMcCahon writes: "Catherine Anne McCahon, 6 weeks old today, Thursday, May 17 Blue Black ink drawing. Signed Colin McCahon. 7" x 5""
New Zealand ground orchid: [Pterostylis Banksii.]
Lower centre (l.c.) in ink: Colin McCahon 1940.
Fifteen drawings.
A.cover: 15 drawings Colin McCahon December ’51 to May ’52; title page: for Charles Brasch from Colin McCahon 1952; b. The cup; c. This is a cold land; d. Light candles against the oncoming dark; f. The word was made flesh and dwelt amongst us.…
Farewell Spit.
Lower centre (l.c.) in ballpoint pen: McCahon. ’48; in pencil: Farewell Spit; verso: Farewell Spit 1948 for ‘The Promised Land’ 44.
The three Maries at the tomb.
Lower right (l.r.) in ink: McCahon ’47; l.r. on card: N.F.S.
Working drawing for stained glass windows.
Unsigned & undated. On same sheet: sketch plans for artist’s house.
Preliminary study for portrait of Gordon H. Brown.
Lower left (l.l.) in ink: Colin McCahon 1968.