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Mountain at sunset.
Lower right (l.r.) with brush in blue paint: Woollaston; verso in fibre tipped pen: 64/100 Mountain at sunset. M.T. Woollaston; verso in green fibre tipped pen: 75gns; label: Woo 12; 2nd label: T. Woollaston oil Mountain of [superimposed to read] at…
Lyttelton Harbour.
Verso mount in ballpoint pen (artist’s hand): M.T. Woollaston, Lyttleton [sic] Harbour about 1938
Portrait of Rodney Kennedy.
Lower right with brush: Woollaston; lower centre in pencil: M.T. Woollaston; verso in oil: [ A142, painting by W.H. Allen titled Study of Tui Northey, Dunedin. ca 1928]
Dunedin from Little Paisley.
This small watercolour of Dunedin from Little Paisley was painted by Edward Immyns Abbot in 1849. The work was acquired by Dr T.M. Hocken who described the artist as ‘a young surveyor of superior abilities’. The surveyor’s role was to record…
Auckland in February 1844.
Incised through image: [numerals 1 - 33]; label on stone: [key]
[Portrait of a lady. n.d.]
Attributed to Girolamo Pieri Nerli, 1860-1926.
Sisters communing.
Lower right (l.r.) with brush: Fahey
Tomahawk.
"[Field's] ideas on painting had been influenced by the Post-Impressionists to the extent of allowing heightened colour and a degree of flattening and formal interest in the constructin of the imagery. Anywhere else Field would not have seemed…
Interior.
Lower right (l.r.) with brush: R.N. Field, 28. verso: landscape in oils.
Mr John McGlashan, secretary in Scotland for the Otago settlement.
With brush: [title] Painted by John Irvine from a photograph six years before his death
Portrait of Vivien Oakden.
Lower left (l.l.) with brush: Grace J. Joel.
Tahunanui, Nelson.
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 with brush: D. Lusk ’47; verso with brush:…
Onekaka Estuary.
Lower right (l.r.) with brush: D. Lusk 1966; verso frame: Oil sketch Onekaka Estuary Doris Lusk Jan. 1966; verso in another hand: Hocken Library; stamp: A.S. Hall
Portrait of Colin McCahon.
19 in The Jack & Ethel McCahon gift to the Hocken Library. McCahon writes: "Doris Lusk. Portrait of C. McC. oil Unsigned & untitled. Late 30s in her Dunedin studio.Above U.F.S. Dispensary opposit City Hotel. c. 17 x 14 Blue Harris tweed coat by H.B.…
Return to Otago. Sept. 1987.
Verso composite board backing in felt pen, artist’s hand: Return to Otago. Sept. 1987. Doris Lusk. Oil on canvas; label verso in ballpoint pen, inscribed for donor by Noel Ginn: Return to Dunedin. Series of Doris Lusk paintings. Portrait of Anne…
William Collinson.
Label verso in ball point pen: Doris Lusk. William Collinson. 1434
Rita Cook [Rita Angus].
Lower right (l.r.): D.K. MacDiarmid ’45
Dark Trees, Dunedin.
Signed l.r.: Colin McCahon.
Little kauri tree.
Lower left (l.l.): McCahon May ’57; verso: [title]
Maitai Valley landscape.
Upper right (u.r.): McCahon 47; verso original card in ink: oil, Maitai Valley landscape. Not for sale. C. McCahon; in pencil: 2… BW dk cream close up no glass, Mr Brasch, 11a Smith St; [& unfinished oil painting of male nude, acc 89/92] Separated…
The Blessed Virgin compared to a jug of pure water and the infant Jesus to a lamp.
Married and living with his wife and young son near Nelson in 1946-48, McCahon turned from depicting landscapes to Christian imagery. By synthesizing disparate elements - portraiture, still life and symbolism (the lamp and jug) with words McCahon…