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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…
Still life for the play Professor Mamlock.
13 in The Jack & Ethel McCahon gift to the Hocken Library. McCahon writes: "Still life. oil Sgd & dated Colin McCahon 1940 [sic] in mount 28 x 30 1/2. Note by R.N. O’Reilly on back of photograph. 'Professor Mamlock however was performed about…
Sketch for landscape from Flagstaff.
03 in The Jack & Ethel McCahon gift to the Hocken LibraryMcCahon writes: "Below. From Flagstaff - (Taieri Plain oil 1942. c 15 x 22".
Landscape Marahau.
17 in The Jack & Ethel McCahon gift to the Hocken LibraryMcCahon writes: "The chestnut grove, Mahau Sound oil c. 14 1/2 x 20 1/2. Signed & dated Colin McCahon '44 but suggest date is wrong & should be rather earlier (ask R.E. Kennedy) A Cezanne…
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".
Red baby.
14 in The Jack & Ethel McCahon gift to the Hocken LibraryMcCahon writes: "Red baby. Watercolour. Signed vertically lower left McCahon 44 [sic] c. 24 x 20. (Anne & William) watercolour. Painted at Renwicktown, Blenheim - the red was a zoot suit thing.…
Waterfall.
Lower right (l.r.) in ballpoint pen: McCahon Dec 64.
I am.
Lower right (l.r.): McCahon Feb ’54; on backing: C. McCahon I Am C.O.B.; on front of frame: 79.
Kauri trees.
Lower left (l.l.) with brush: McCahon April 54; verso in ballpoint: [framing instructions].
Kauri
Lower right (l.r.) in pen & ink: McCahon ’59 April. Kauri
Kaipara Flat.
Lower left (l.l.) in pencil: Colin McCahon August ’71; l.r. in pencil: Kaipara Flat; papermakers chop: Steinbach Malmedy.
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…
Crucifixion.
Lower right (l.r.) with brush: McCahon … [date illeg]; through image with brush: I.N.R.I.
Triangles.
Upper right (u.r.) in capitals: McCahon Jan ’65.
Swan Lake stage design 1.
Upper left (u.l.) with brush: [title]; u.r. with brush: McCahon; l.c. in ballpoint pen: lighting instructions; l.r. in pencil: Colin McCahon, March ’54; verso: preliminary sketch in gouache
Otago Harbour.
Lower right (l.r.) with brush: Colin McCahon 41; verso with brush: Otago Harbour Colin McCahon 1941; verso in ink: oil on gesso 25 gns; verso in ink: 24 Prestwick St, Maori Hill, Dunedin; verso in ballpoint pen: 15gns; verso in pencil: 30 green…
Towards Auckland 6.
Lower left (l.l.): [title]; l.r.: McCahon Jan 54
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…
Maitai Valley landscape.
Upper right (u.r.): McCahon 47; verso original card in ink: oil, Maitai Valley landscape. Not for sale. C. McCahon; in pencil: 2… BW dk cream close up no glass, Mr Brasch, 11a Smith St; [& unfinished oil painting of male nude, acc 89/92] Separated…
Little kauri tree.
Lower left (l.l.): McCahon May ’57; verso: [title]
Dark Trees, Dunedin.
Signed l.r.: Colin McCahon.
Abstract: print no. 4.
G.H. Brown writes: McCahon described this work to me as 'a sort of Gate', & laughingly said that the title could be Abstract: Gate, but whether that is accurate enough to use as a generic title for the complete set, to which this work belongs, seems…
Sketch for Window.
McCahon felt that the design was: 'a bit too easy'. McCahon gave this sketch to Brown when helping him in his Crummer Road studio during 1979.
Rita Cook [Rita Angus].
Lower right (l.r.): D.K. MacDiarmid ’45