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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".
Chair.
06 in The Jack & Ethel McCahon gift to the Hocken Library. McCahon writes: "Old chair. oil c 32 x 25 Undated but c. 1939. The actual chair eventually became the property of M.T. Woollaston when we left Mapua. Was bought at the famous second hand shop…
Rosegarden V.
Lower left (l.l.) with brush: C.McC. 74. Rosegarden - V.
Dear Wee June.
Lower right (l.r.): McCahon Jan ’48; through image: In loving memory of dear wee June who fell asleep 12th March 1935 aged 4 years and 9 months. Of such is the Kingdom of Heaven; verso stretcher: [hanging instructions, title] cat no 27.
Pohutukawa: from the Titirangi series.
Upper left (u.l.): C.M. Nov. ’57.
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.
Otago Peninsula landscape - abandoned painting.
Originally verso Nelson Hills 3 Separated, titled and accessioned, August 1989.
Manukau 3.
Lower left (l.l.): [title] McCahon Jan ’54
Titirangi, Winter.
Lower left (l.l.): McCahon May ’ 57, Aug Sept 1, Titirangi; l.r. Winter.
Painting.
Lower right (l.r.): McCahon 17.9.62; verso: [artist's name & date]; Ikon Gallery label on stretcher inscribed: 'Painting' Colin McCahon.
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…
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Unfinished study of male nude.
Centre (c.) in ink: oil, Maitai Valley landscape. Not for sale. C. McCahon; u.l. in pencil: 2… BW dk cream close up no glass, Mr Brasch, 11a Smith St; verso original card: [oil painting Maitai Valley landscape, acc. 20,922 also titled Nelson Hills…
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]
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.
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
[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
Portrait of a young woman artist.
Lower left (l.l.) with brush: G.P. Nerli [monogram]
Queenstown.
Verso in pencil: No 3 Queenstown no 3 £11-11-0 Evelyn Page; verso in ink in Dr Brasch’s hand: Charles Brasch
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.
Leaving Auckland Harbour.
Date from flag indicating ownership.
George Samuel Sale, M.A., professor of classics 1870-1907.
Lower right (l.r.) with brush: M.D. Sale 1902.
Ettrick Shepherd (James Hogg).
Previously dated as ca 1832, however the work is listed as being shown in 1829 in the Royal Scottish Academy Exhibitors 1826-1990.
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.
Portrait of Hurky Moon.
Upper left (u.l.) with brush: M.D. Smither 1962; verso: [notes about work by artist]