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Rock face, Weka Pass.
Lower right (l.r.) with brush: D. Lusk 1961; label: Victoria Gallery
Rockyside, Caversham.
Lower left (l.l.) with brush: J.T. Thomson 1868; on canvas verso: Rockyside Caversham 1868
Rosegarden V.
Lower left (l.l.) with brush: C.McC. 74. Rosegarden - V.
Self portrait.
Lower right (l.r.) with brush: Rita Angus
Sisters communing.
Lower right (l.r.) with brush: Fahey
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".
Smiling woman.
Lower right (l.r.) in pencil: James M. Nairn; verso frame in pencil in Brasch’s hand: J.M. Nairn; verso frame in ballpoint pen: Nisbet [framing instructions]
Springtime in Pukekura Park, New Plymouth.
Lower left (l.l.): M.D. Smither 65-70
St Clair beach, Dunedin, New Zealand.
Lower right (l.r.) with brush in red paint: G.P. [ligated, vertical] Nerli; label: St Clair Beach, Dunedin, N.Z. [undated press clipping about Nerli]; label: Fisher & Son, Christchurch; label: 146
Street scene.
Subject once thought to be a view in Dunedin, but now thought, by Margaret Taylor, to be a street in Ballarat, Australia. Title taken from work exhibited in the New Zealand & South Seas Exhibition Dunedin, 1889-90. panel is from cigar box.
Study of a negro.
Lower right (l.r.) with brush: NH 95 [monogram]; verso: NH 95 [monogram]
Tahunanui, Nelson.
Lower right (l.r.) with brush in red paint: G.P. [ligated, vertical] Nerli; label: St Clair Beach, Dunedin, N.Z. [undated press clipping about Nerli]; label: Fisher & Son, Christchurch; label: 146 with brush: D. Lusk ’47; verso with brush:…
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…
The "Dunedin" off the English Coast.
Depicts the ship `Dunedin' that carried the 1st load of frozen lamb to England from Port Chalmers in 1882
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 New Zealand chiefs in Wesley’s House.
Lower left (l.l.) with brush: J. Smetham 1863; on frame: The New Zealand chiefs in Wesley's house. James Smetham 1863.
Titirangi, Winter.
Lower left (l.l.): McCahon May ’ 57, Aug Sept 1, Titirangi; l.r. Winter.
Titiroa River.
Lower left (l.l.) with brush: JTT 1881; label recto: Titiroa River. 1881; on canvas verso: Titiroa River. 1881; label verso: T.T. Thomson for exhibition only
Tobacco fields, Nelson, N.Z.
Lower left (l.l.) with brush: D. Lusk 41; verso in white paint superimposed over pencil: Tobacco fields, Nelson, N.Z. Doris Lusk 25 Ross St Dunedin; verso in pink crayon: C Brasch Dunedin; label: 20
Tomahawk.
"[Field's] ideas on painting had been influenced by the Post-Impressionists to the extent of allowing heightened colour and a degree of flattening and formal interest in the constructin of the imagery. Anywhere else Field would not have seemed…