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Manukau 3.
Lower left (l.l.): [title] McCahon Jan ’54
Otago Peninsula landscape - abandoned painting.
Originally verso Nelson Hills 3 Separated, titled and accessioned, August 1989.
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.
Pohutukawa: from the Titirangi series.
Upper left (u.l.): C.M. Nov. ’57.
Dear Wee June.
Lower right (l.r.): McCahon Jan ’48; through image: In loving memory of dear wee June who fell asleep 12th March 1935 aged 4 years and 9 months. Of such is the Kingdom of Heaven; verso stretcher: [hanging instructions, title] cat no 27.
Rosegarden V.
Lower left (l.l.) with brush: C.McC. 74. Rosegarden - V.
Chair.
06 in The Jack & Ethel McCahon gift to the Hocken Library. McCahon writes: "Old chair. oil c 32 x 25 Undated but c. 1939. The actual chair eventually became the property of M.T. Woollaston when we left Mapua. Was bought at the famous second hand shop…
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…
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].
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.
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…
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.
Pohutukawa tree, tide out.
Lower left (l.l.) with brush: C.Mc. ’58, Feb.; u.l. with brush: Pohutukawa tree, tide out.
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".
Nelson Hills 3.
08 in The Jack & Ethel McCahon gift to the Hocken LibraryMcCahon writes: "Right. Nelson Hills. oil Feb 48. c 14 x 20. Signed lower left".
Crucifixion.
Frequently exhibited with variant title, Crucifixion with lamp 1947.