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- Collection: Works by Colin McCahon
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Drawing.
Lower right (l.r.) in chalk: C.M. ’61.
Dunedin Summer Show at Tahuna Park.
04 in The Jack & Ethel McCahon gift to the Hocken LibraryMcCahon writes: "on left. Dunedin Summer Show at Tahuna Park. Unsigned - undated but c 1935-6. Tempera c. 11 x 14".
Easter landscape with the three falls and an epilogue.
Lower right (l.r.) in pencil: Colin McCahon Jan 1968; u.c. in pencil: Easter landscape with the three falls & an epilogue; inscribed through image: [colour notes]
Farewell Spit.
Lower centre (l.c.) in ballpoint pen: McCahon. ’48; in pencil: Farewell Spit; verso: Farewell Spit 1948 for ‘The Promised Land’ 44.
Tags: Coasts, Drawings, Image, Landscape, Pen works, Still Image, Works of Art
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]
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.…
Figure and cross.
Lower right (l.r.) in pencil: for Rodney, one of the drawings for your painting. McCahon
Tags: Drawings, Image, Nineteen forties, Pencil works, Still Image, Works of Art
Flower study.
Lower right (l.r.) with brush: C.McC.
Tags: Gouaches, Image, Nineteen thirties, Still Image, Works of Art
French Bay - night fishing.
Two editions of 30; one on white paper, one on blue. Ron Brownson suggested title: Night Fishing French Bay.
From the north end of Tomahawk Beach.
12 in The Jack & Ethel McCahon gift to the Hocken LibraryMcCahon writes: "Landscape from North end of Tomahawk beach, Dunedin. 9 3/4 x 11 1/2. watercolour. Signal hill in distance. These two date mid 30s - the bottom one I like-"
Gay Nineties Soirée. Dunedin Left Book Club, Saturday Nov. 18. 1938.
Through image with brush: Gay Nineties Soirée. Dunedin Left Book Club, Saturday Nov. 18.
Tags: Advertising, Design, Gouaches, Image, Nineteen thirties, posters, Still Image, Works of Art
Greetings to Mondrian's Chrysanthemum of 1908. Kaipara Flat.
Lower left (l.l.) in pencil: Greetings to Mondrian’s Chrysanthemum of 1908; l.r. in pencil: Colin McCahon August 1971 Kaipara Flat; papermakers chop: Steinbach Malmedy; label: Mollers Gallery.
Harbour Cone from Peggy’s Hill.
09 in The Jack & Ethel McCahon gift to the Hocken LibraryMcCahon writes: "Otago Peninsula oil 28 x 48. Signed lower right. Colin McCahon 1939".
Hoeing tobacco.
Lower right (l.r.) in ink: Hoeing tobacco.
I am.
Lower right (l.r.): McCahon Feb ’54; on backing: C. McCahon I Am C.O.B.; on front of frame: 79.
James K. Baxter Festival 1973.
Inscribed throughout on plate.
John in Canterbury.
Lower centre (l.c.) with brush: McCahon August ’59; u.l. - c.r. with brush: God, it is all dark. The heart beat but there is no answering hark of a hearer and no-one to speak; l.r. with brush: John in Canterbury; verso: Colin McCahon No 36 August…
Kaipara Flat.
Lower left (l.l.) in pencil: Colin McCahon August ’71; l.r. in pencil: Kaipara Flat; papermakers chop: Steinbach Malmedy.
Kauri
Lower right (l.r.) in pen & ink: McCahon ’59 April. Kauri
Kauri trees.
Lower left (l.l.) with brush: McCahon April 54; verso in ballpoint: [framing instructions].
Kauri.
Lower left (l.l.) in pencil: McCahon ’54; l.c. in pencil: 5/55.
Tags: Image, kauri, Lithographs, Nineteen fifties, Prints, Relief prints, Still Image, Trees, Works of Art
Kelp, low tide.
11 in The Jack & Ethel McCahon gift to the Hocken LibraryMcCahon writes: "Kelp. Low tide. watercolour. Signed l. left. C McCahon 7" x 8 1/5"".
Tags: Aquatic Plants, Image, Kelps, Still Image, Watercolors, Works of Art