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Working drawing for stained glass windows.
Unsigned & undated. On same sheet: sketch plans for artist’s house.
Preliminary study for portrait of Gordon H. Brown.
Lower left (l.l.) in ink: Colin McCahon 1968.
Stage designs for [The Thieves Carnival, by Jean Anouilh] Act 1.
Lower right (l.r.) in red ballpoint pen: Act 1; verso: pencil 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 3.
Lower right (l.r.) in red ballpoint pen: Act 3; verso: ballpoint pen drawing.
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.
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. 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. 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. 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. Saddle Hill.
Lower centre (l.c.) in pencil: Saddle Hill. C. McCahon 1939.
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. 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.
Shows observatory and Ravensbourne wharf.
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…
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.
Rodney Kennedy with “Vicarage Bed”, painting by Anne Hamblett (circa 1937).
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;…
Working drawing for Malady.
Margin below image lower left (l.l.) in pencil: Wont work; margin below image c. - r. in ballpoint pen: Working drawing for Malady Hotere '70
Working drawing for Malady.
Lower left (l.l.) in ballpoint pen: Drawing for Malady; l.r. in ballpoint pen: Hotere ’70
Working drawing for Malady.
Lower left (l.l.) in ballpoint pen: Working drawing for Malady Hotere ’70
Working drawing for Malady.
Lower centre (l.c.) in ballpoint pen: Working drawing for Malady; l.r. in ballpoint pen: Hotere ’70
Working drawing for Malady.
Lower centre (l.c.) in ballpoint pen: Drawing for Malady; l.r. in ballpoint pen: Hotere ’70
Working drawing for Malady.
Lower centre (l.c.) in ballpoint pen: Drawing for Malady; l.r. in ballpoint pen: Hotere '70; verso mount: Hotere '70.
The temptations of Œedipus by Baxter [set design].
Lower centre (l.c.) in pencil: Set design for Baxter
The temptations of Œdipus by Baxter [set design].
Lower left (l.l.) in pencil: The temptations of Oedipus