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Stage designs for Peer Gynt. Series 1. 02.
Upper centre (u.c.) in ballpoint pen: Act 1 Scene 2 Wedding day; l.r. in ballpoint pen: 2; verso: [unfinished sketch]
Stage designs for Peer Gynt. Series 1. 01.
Upper centre (u.c.) in pencil: Act 1 Scene 1, Mother & Son; l.r. in pencil: 1
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…
Swan Lake, stage design 2.
Verso each pair in pencil: A B C D [respectively].
Saddle Hill from Taieri Mouth.
32 in The Jack & Ethel McCahon gift to the Hocken LibraryMcCahon writes: "Colin McCahon - Saddle Hill watercolour c. 1937-38"
From the north end of Tomahawk Beach.
12 in The Jack & Ethel McCahon gift to the Hocken LibraryMcCahon writes: "Landscape from North end of Tomahawk beach, Dunedin. 9 3/4 x 11 1/2. watercolour. Signal hill in distance. These two date mid 30s - the bottom one I like-"
Ruby Bay.
07 in The Jack & Ethel McCahon gift to the Hocken LibraryMcCahon writes: "Left. Ruby Bay. c. 8 x 10 1/5 1936."
Untitled.
Verso in pencil: This way up. Colin McCahon; verso in pencil in different hand: Art School period.
Taieri Mouth.
Lower right (l.r.) in pencil: Colin McCahon; verso: Taieri Mouth.
Brighton.
Lower right (l.r.) in pencil: Colin McCahon; verso: Brighton.
Painting.
Lower right (l.r.): McCahon 17.9.62; verso: [artist's name & date]; Ikon Gallery label on stretcher inscribed: 'Painting' Colin McCahon.
Self portrait.
Lower right (l.r.) in pencil: D. Lusk 1964; verso backing board: Self portrait 1954 [retraced to read] 1964 Doris Lusk Christchurch; stamp: A.J. Hall Ltd
Port Otago.
Village of Te Ruatitoko in foreground.
Correspondence: 25 September 1923, to Dr James Johnstone, B.A., F.R.C.S., Richmond, England,
Dear Sir,... your letter to Dr Fulton which was printed in the ODT Aug 15 in which you describe the original…
Correspondence: 25 September 1923, to Dr James Johnstone, B.A., F.R.C.S., Richmond, England,
Dear Sir,... your letter to Dr Fulton which was printed in the ODT Aug 15 in which you describe the original…
Charlton Edgar.
Lower right (l.r.) with pen & ink: R.N.Field
Leaving Auckland Harbour.
Date from flag indicating ownership.
New Year holiday. (Corsair Bay).
Lower right (l.r). in pencil: Evelyn Page; verso in pencil: Charles Brasch 536 12 New Year Holiday Evelyn Page.
Portrait of a young woman artist.
Lower left (l.l.) with brush: G.P. Nerli [monogram]
[Portrait of W.M. Hodgkins.]
Lower left (l.l.) with brush: G.P. Nerli [monogram]; on stretcher in pencil: Dr Skinner, Director Otago Museum, King St, Dunedin
Native feast held at Remuera, Auckland, New Zealand. May 11 1844.
On mount in ink in Dr Hockenís hand: Native Feast held at Remuera, Auckland, New Zealand. May 11th 1844. Joseph Merrett, artist. T.M. Hocken; label in ink in Dr Hockenís hand: An interesting account of this Feast is given in Gov. Fitzroyís…
Greetings to Mondrian's Chrysanthemum of 1908. Kaipara Flat.
Lower left (l.l.) in pencil: Greetings to Mondrian’s Chrysanthemum of 1908; l.r. in pencil: Colin McCahon August 1971 Kaipara Flat; papermakers chop: Steinbach Malmedy; label: Mollers Gallery.
John in Canterbury.
Lower centre (l.c.) with brush: McCahon August ’59; u.l. - c.r. with brush: God, it is all dark. The heart beat but there is no answering hark of a hearer and no-one to speak; l.r. with brush: John in Canterbury; verso: Colin McCahon No 36 August…
Titirangi, Winter.
Lower left (l.l.): McCahon May ’ 57, Aug Sept 1, Titirangi; l.r. Winter.
Manukau 3.
Lower left (l.l.): [title] McCahon Jan ’54
