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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.
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…
Working drawings for three paintings of the Otago Peninsula.
Shows observatory and Ravensbourne wharf.
Working drawings for three paintings of the Otago Peninsula. Mount Charles.
Lower left (l.l.) in pencil: Mount Charles C. McCahon 1940 [paper manufacturer’s printed inscription].
Working drawings for three paintings of the Otago Peninsula. Drawing for the Fleischl picture.
Lower left (l.l.) in pencil: McCahon; c.l. in pencil: Peninsula. Little Harbour Cone & sandspit across Papanui Inlet; l.r. in pencil: drawing for the Fleischl picture.
Working drawings for three paintings of the Otago Peninsula. Saddle Hill.
Lower centre (l.c.) in pencil: Saddle Hill. C. McCahon 1939.
Working drawings for three paintings of the Otago Peninsula. From Portobello?
Lower right (l.r.) in pencil: McCahon ’40; margin r. in pencil: from Portobello?; u.r.: [paper manufacturer’s printed inscription].
Working drawings for three paintings of the Otago Peninsula. Harbour Cone, Observatory. Ravensbourne Wharf.
Lower left (l.l.) in pencil: McCahon í40; through in pencil: grid lines; verso in pencil: Harbour Cone, Observatory, Ravensbourne Wharf 45.
Working drawings for three paintings of the Otago Peninsula. Untitled.
Lower centre (l.c.) in pencil vertically: Jan 1 1946; through image in pencil; [grid lines colour notes] concave; verso: [fragmentary sketch] landscape from Port Chalmers white.
Working drawings for three paintings of the Otago Peninsula. Untitled.
Through image in pencil: [painting notes inscribed]; above image in pencil: [illeg inscription crossed out]; verso vertically in pencil: [illeg] from Psalms 1 25.
Working drawings for three paintings of the Otago Peninsula. For Hocken - view of Otago Harbour near Observatory. Follows first Peninsula painting.
Shows observatory & Ravensbourne Wharf.
Stage designs for [The Thieves Carnival, by Jean Anouilh] Act 3.
Lower right (l.r.) in red ballpoint pen: Act 3; verso: ballpoint pen drawing.
Stage designs for [The Thieves Carnival, by Jean Anouilh] Act 2.
Lower right (l.r.) in red ballpoint pen: Act 2.
Stage designs for [The Thieves Carnival, by Jean Anouilh] Act 1.
Lower right (l.r.) in red ballpoint pen: Act 1; verso: pencil drawing.
Preliminary study for portrait of Gordon H. Brown.
Lower left (l.l.) in ink: Colin McCahon 1968.
Working drawing for stained glass windows.
Unsigned & undated. On same sheet: sketch plans for artist’s house.
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.
A piece of Muriwai canvas - Wall of death.
Upper centre (u.c.): A piece of Muriwai canvas; c.: Wall of death.
Sketch plan relating to festival of Baxter’s plays in Wellington.
Inscribed throughout. Verso reproductions of paintings.
Otago Peninsula landscapes - two drawings. 1.
Margin u.r. in pencil: 1947; margin l.r. in pencil: Colin McCahon; on mount: Rodney, I promised you these quite some time ago as they really belong with your painting. I don’t think they are of particular value as works of art but possibly are of…
Otago Peninsula landscapes - two drawings. 2.
Lower right (l.r.) in pencil: Otago Peninsula landscapes. Colin McCahon; through image in pencil: [gridlines]; on mount: Rodney, I promised you these quite some time ago as they really belong with your painting. I don’t think they are of particular…
See the stirring of the Lake.
No 1 of a series of 15 drawings commissioned by Peter McLeavey to commemorate the twelfth year of his gallery’s existence.
Marge in the Maitai Valley, Nelson.
Lower left (l.l.) in pencil: McCahon ’47; verso in pencil: Marge in the Maitai Valley, Nelson.
Portrait of Rodney Kennedy.
l.l. in pencil: C.McCahon; l.r. in pencil: Portrait of Rodney Kennedy. 1939; verso in pencil: 1/-
Drawing for ‘Dear Wee June’. In loving memory of Our Dear Wee June who fell asleep… 1945.
Lower right (l.r.) in pencil: Drawing for Dear Wee June McCahon; u.r. in pencil: Dec 27 1945 [Variously inscribed throughout]; on attached paper in pencil: This is from the Port Chalmers Cemetery looking at the Harbour mouth. The final painting was…