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Working drawings for three paintings of the Otago Peninsula. Harbour Cone.
Lower right (l.r.) in ink: Harbour Cone, McCahon.
Working drawings for three paintings of the Otago Peninsula. Peninsula landscape with Harbour Cone.
Lower centre (l.c.) in ink: Peninsular landscape with Harbour Cone; l.r. in ink: McCahon.
Working drawings for three paintings of the Otago Peninsula. Peninsula landscape.
Lower centre (l.c.) in ink: Peninsular landscape; l.r. in ink: McCahon.
Working drawings for three paintings of the Otago Peninsula. Peninsula.
Lower right (l.r.) in ink: Peninsula McCahon.
Working drawings for three paintings of the Otago Peninsula. For R. Kennedy landscape.
Below image c. in ink: For R. Kennedy landscape; l.r. in ink: McCahon; through image in pencil: concave.
Working drawings for three paintings of the Otago Peninsula. [from] Mount Charles.
Lower right (l.r.) in pencil: C. McCahon; l.l. in pencil: Mt Charles.
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. Mount Charles.
l.l. in pencil: Mt Charles; l.r. in pencil: C. McCahon; verso: pen & ink sketch inscribed: Dark light.
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.
The three Maries at the tomb.
Lower right (l.r.) in ink: McCahon ’47; l.r. on card: N.F.S.
Hoeing tobacco.
Lower right (l.r.) in ink: Hoeing tobacco.
New Zealand ground orchid: [Pterostylis Banksii.]
Lower centre (l.c.) in ink: Colin McCahon 1940.
Catherine Anne McCahon, 6 weeks old today, thursday, may 17.
16 in The Jack & Ethel McCahon gift to the Hocken LibraryMcCahon writes: "Catherine Anne McCahon, 6 weeks old today, Thursday, May 17 Blue Black ink drawing. Signed Colin McCahon. 7" x 5""
4YA Highcliff, Otago Peninsula.
05 in The Jack & Ethel McCahon gift to the Hocken LibraryMcCahon writes: "on right. 4YA. Highcliffe [sic] Otago Peninsular [sic] c. 9 x 11 1/2. (Varnished with theatrical spirit gum (for sliding on boards etc) C.McC" Dated by Luit Bieringa.
D’Urville Island from Ruby Bay. (1).
22 in The Jack & Ethel McCahon gift to the Hocken LibraryMcCahon writes: "Colin McCahon. on left. Durville island taken from Ruby bay. initialled C.M. lower l. c. 7 1/2 x 9 1/2. crayon".
D’Urville Island from Ruby Bay. (2).
Margin above image u.l. - u.r. in pencil: D’Urville Island from Ruby Bay 1945; u.r. in pencil: Colin McCahon; l.r. in crayon: McCahon.
Ruby Bay.
07 in The Jack & Ethel McCahon gift to the Hocken LibraryMcCahon writes: "Left. Ruby Bay. c. 8 x 10 1/5 1936."
Paintings by Colin McCahon - poster with text from the [New Zealand Listener], March 5 1948.
Originally used for the 1947 exhibition in Dunedin, but presumably modified with Listener text for the 1948 exhibition in the Wellington Public Library.
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…
Marge in the Maitai Valley, Nelson.
Lower left (l.l.) in pencil: McCahon ’47; verso in pencil: Marge in the Maitai Valley, Nelson.
Mount Arthur Range, Nelson.
Lower right (l.r.) in ink: McCahon ’46; l.r. on mount in ink: The Mount Arthur Range, Nelson.
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…