Lower right (l.r.) in pencil: D. Lusk 1979; verso mount in ink: Rodney Kennedy with “Vicarage Bed”, painting by Anne Hamblett (circa 1937) McCahon. Doris Lusk. June 1979. w/colour pencil; in pencil unknown hand: Please leave attached. Holland;…
Verso composite board backing in felt pen, artist’s hand: Return to Otago. Sept. 1987. Doris Lusk. Oil on canvas; label verso in ballpoint pen, inscribed for donor by Noel Ginn: Return to Dunedin. Series of Doris Lusk paintings. Portrait of Anne…
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.…
Lower right (l.r.) with brush: Woollaston ’55; label: Portrait of a boy [crossed out] The artist’s son Philip aged 10 1955; label: 43; label: Mountford Tosswill Woollaston, MAG 73-74 titled The artist’s son Philip, aged 10
Lower right with brush: Woollaston; lower centre in pencil: M.T. Woollaston; verso in oil: [ A142, painting by W.H. Allen titled Study of Tui Northey, Dunedin. ca 1928]
Verso mount in blue ink: This portrait of Nellie Martha Ross (later Mrs Andrew Jensen) was painted by her father, Thomas Ross, & by Senor Nerli, together at Ravensbourne. She was 14 years old at the time. This would be about 1896. The same two men…