10 in The Jack & Ethel McCahon gift to the Hocken Library. McCahon writes: "Untitled but North Otago. gouache 20 x 28 Signed etc McCahon 51 lower left. There are a number of these. The best (an oil) owned by Miss Jean Horsley, now in England. The…
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.
Verso in red ballpoint pen: McC 41; verso in black ballpoint: 44b; on accompanying card in blue felt pen (McCahon’s hand): Colin McCahon, oil on paper. Drawing for “Landscape Theme & Variation” 1962-63. (This side to face the auctioneer.) My…
Lower centre (l.c.) with brush: McCahon August ’59; u.l. - c.r. with brush: God, it is all dark. The heart beat but there is no answering hark of a hearer and no-one to speak; l.r. with brush: John in Canterbury; verso: Colin McCahon No 36 August…
Lower left (l.l.) in pencil: McCahon; c.l. in pencil: Peninsula. Little Harbour Cone & sandspit across Papanui Inlet; l.r. in pencil: drawing for the Fleischl picture.
Upper right (u.r.) in pencil: for Rodney Kennedy’s landscape; c.r. in pencil: missing drawing from this sheet with R.N. O’Reilly; inscribed through image in blue & black ink: artist’s notes; verso: fragment of painting.