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Wreck of the Lastingham. ca 1880.
Lower right (l.r.) with brush: C. Sommers.
William Collinson.
Label verso in ball point pen: Doris Lusk. William Collinson. 1434
Waterfall.
Lower right (l.r.) in ballpoint pen: McCahon Dec 64.
Waiuta, Greymouth.
Lower right (l.r.) with brush: Woollaston ’54-8; label: Landscape Greymouth. Waiuta; label: Mountford Tosswill Woollaston MAG titled Waiuta Greymouth
View looking north from Mt Iron, Wanaka.
About 1865 Nicholas Chevalier visited New Zealand with his wife and went on a tour of the lakes and mountains of Otago.
View from Tinakori Road.
"In the 1960s Wellington's long settled inner suburb of Thorndon was threatened by the proposed construction of a motorway through it. Old houses were pulled down and Wellington's first cemetery was demolished." "When plans for an extension to the…
Upper Moutere in summer.
Verso in pencil: Upper Moutere in summer, Dec. 1945, Woollaston, Mapua; in ink in donor’s hand: C. Brasch [artist’s name & picture title]
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…
Triangles.
Upper right (u.r.) in capitals: McCahon Jan ’65.
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…
Tobacco fields, Nelson, N.Z.
Lower left (l.l.) with brush: D. Lusk 41; verso in white paint superimposed over pencil: Tobacco fields, Nelson, N.Z. Doris Lusk 25 Ross St Dunedin; verso in pink crayon: C Brasch Dunedin; label: 20
Titiroa River.
Lower left (l.l.) with brush: JTT 1881; label recto: Titiroa River. 1881; on canvas verso: Titiroa River. 1881; label verso: T.T. Thomson for exhibition only
Titirangi, Winter.
Lower left (l.l.): McCahon May ’ 57, Aug Sept 1, Titirangi; l.r. Winter.
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.
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.
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…
The "Dunedin" off the English Coast.
Depicts the ship `Dunedin' that carried the 1st load of frozen lamb to England from Port Chalmers in 1882
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…
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:…
Study of a negro.
Lower right (l.r.) with brush: NH 95 [monogram]; verso: NH 95 [monogram]
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
Springtime in Pukekura Park, New Plymouth.
Lower left (l.l.): M.D. Smither 65-70