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Swan Lake, stage design 2.
Verso each pair in pencil: A B C D [respectively].
Taieri Mouth.
Lower right (l.r.) in pencil: Colin McCahon; verso: Taieri Mouth.
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…
Te Whiti.
Lower left (l.l.) in pencil: C.McC; u.l. in pencil: Te Whiti; inscribed 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; u.c. in pencil: As I pass the border, how can I forbear from turning back my head, Hsu Lan [jottings throughout].
The Blessed Virgin compared to a jug of pure water and the infant Jesus to a lamp.
Married and living with his wife and young son near Nelson in 1946-48, McCahon turned from depicting landscapes to Christian imagery. By synthesizing disparate elements - portraiture, still life and symbolism (the lamp and jug) with words McCahon…
The curtain of Solomon.
Originally three panels, the centre one apparently destroyed by the artist after CSA exhibition.
The curtain of Solomon.
Originally three panels, the centre one apparently destroyed by the artist after CSA exhibition.
The Holy Life and Death of Concrete Grady by James K. Baxter. n.d. Book cover design no 1. n.d.
Margin u.l. in ballpoint pen: This drawing is the property of Colin McCahon. Please return; in carbon on image: James K. Baxter, The Holy Life and Death of Concrete Grady; in margin in ballpoint pen: no 1; margin around image: [instructions to…
The Holy Life and Death of Concrete Grady by James K. Baxter. n.d. Book cover design no 2. n.d.
Margin below image c. in ballpoint pen: C.McC.; in carbon on image: James K. Baxter, The Holy Life and Death of Concrete Grady; in margin above image in ballpoint pen: no 2 [and printing instructions including note that artist wants art work returned…
The three Maries at the tomb.
Lower right (l.r.) in ink: McCahon ’47; l.r. on card: N.F.S.
Timaru landscape.
10 in The Jack & Ethel McCahon gift to the Hocken Library. McCahon writes: "Untitled but North Otago. gouache 20 x 28 Signed etc McCahon 51 lower left. There are a number of these. The best (an oil) owned by Miss Jean Horsley, now in England. The…
Titirangi, Winter.
Lower left (l.l.): McCahon May ’ 57, Aug Sept 1, Titirangi; l.r. Winter.
Towards Auckland 6.
Lower left (l.l.): [title]; l.r.: McCahon Jan 54
Triangles.
Upper right (u.r.) in capitals: McCahon Jan ’65.
Truth from the King Country, Load bearing structures. Series 3/4.
Verso with brush: Truth from the King Country. Load bearing structures. 4 3rd Series. Colin McC ’78 Acrylic.
Unfinished study of male nude.
Centre (c.) in ink: oil, Maitai Valley landscape. Not for sale. C. McCahon; u.l. in pencil: 2… BW dk cream close up no glass, Mr Brasch, 11a Smith St; verso original card: [oil painting Maitai Valley landscape, acc. 20,922 also titled Nelson Hills…
Untitled.
Verso in pencil: This way up. Colin McCahon; verso in pencil in different hand: Art School period.
Untitled.
Margin below image r. in pencil: Colin McCahon 73; through image in red chalk: Me [arrow]
Waterfall.
Lower right (l.r.) in ballpoint pen: McCahon Dec 64.
Wild the hedgerows, wild the spring, wild the yellowhammers sing. Wild the roaring of the sea, wilder still the blood in me.
Lower left (l.l.) in pencil: Colin McCahon For my friend Pat France, Feb 1970. Poem by John Caselberg No 1 of six on van Gogh, the other five of which I hope you will love as much. Colin; through image in chalk: Wild the hedgerows, wild the spring,…
Window for Te Puke, upper and lower frames.
(1.:) l.c.: title, Colin McCahon. August 20-21, 70; u.c.: upper frame; glazier’s instructions inscribed throughout; verso on unattached card backing: Colin McCahon, title, To be hung over no 2. (2.:) l.c.: title, actual size, lower panel, Colin…