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Easter landscape with the three falls and an epilogue.
Lower right (l.r.) in pencil: Colin McCahon Jan 1968; u.c. in pencil: Easter landscape with the three falls & an epilogue; inscribed through image: [colour notes]
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…
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.
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…
Study for portrait of the washbasin with blood.
Lower right (l.r.) in pencil: Cl 71; l.r. in ink: Portrait of the washbasin with blood; on mount: Study for portrait of the washbasin with blood. May 1971. P. Clairmont
I heat up, I can’t cool down (Steve Miller).
Lower centre (l.c.) with brush: W. Hammond [title]; verso in crayon: W. Hammond 1985