Red baby.

Creator

Rights

Red baby by Colin McCahon.
Reproduction permission courtesy of the Colin McCahon Research and Publication Trust.

Date Created

1945

Identifier

Hocken Pictorial Collections - 73/74
a5445

Description

14 in The Jack & Ethel McCahon gift to the Hocken LibraryMcCahon writes: "Red baby. Watercolour. Signed vertically lower left McCahon 44 [sic] c. 24 x 20. (Anne & William) watercolour. Painted at Renwicktown, Blenheim - the red was a zoot suit thing. The chair is the same one as previously painted - or was it? The dating of this work & its actual origins remain a forgotten thing - did my sister have a similar victorian chair? I have a definitely Renwicktown drawing of Anne in the same chair."
Lower left (l.l.) vertically: McCahon 45; (depicts artist’s wife Anne holding son William.)

Table Of Contents

Anne Hamblett

Extent

607 x 502 mm

Medium

watercolour on paper

Temporal Coverage

Provenance

Estate of Mrs E.M. McCahon, Geraldine.
John & Ethel McCahon Bequest, 1973.

Genre

Portraits

Files

a5445.jpg

Citation

McCahon, Colin, “Red baby.,” ourheritage.ac.nz | OUR Heritage, accessed December 6, 2024, https://ourheritage.ac.nz/items/show/5483.