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Kauri trees.
Lower left (l.l.) with brush: McCahon April 54; verso in ballpoint: [framing instructions].
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…
Sketch for Window.
McCahon felt that the design was: 'a bit too easy'. McCahon gave this sketch to Brown when helping him in his Crummer Road studio during 1979.
Rita Cook [Rita Angus].
Lower right (l.r.): D.K. MacDiarmid ’45
William Collinson.
Label verso in ball point pen: Doris Lusk. William Collinson. 1434
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…
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.…
A drawing of Te Whiti as a young man for James Mack.
Lower right (l.r.) in ink: A drawing of Te Whiti as a young man for James Mack.
Green on black.
Verso in pencil: A14.
Blue on black.
Upper left (u.l.) & l.r. in pencil: 21; verso in pencil: A14.
Red on black.
Lower right (l.r.) in pencil: 7; verso in pencil: A14.
Two bathers.
Upper right (u.r.) in black ink: Jeffrey Harris July 1973; verso mount in ballpoint pen: Two bathers Jeffrey Harris Wgtn 1973
The end of summer.
Verso original mount in ballpoint pen: January 1972 Jeffrey Harris [title] painted in Wellington at Mrs Paul’s
Professor F. Sinclaire. Medusa Studio.
Lower left (l.l.) in pencil: Professor F. Sinclaire; l.r. in pencil: Jas Fitzgerald; on mount: 2/2/- drypoint from life; label verso: Medusa Studio.
Interior.
Lower right (l.r.) with brush: R.N. Field, 28. verso: landscape in oils.
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…
[A country scene.]
Lower right (l.r.) with brush: I. Field 08; label … Country … [illeg] Mrs W.H. Field
Sisters communing.
Lower right (l.r.) with brush: Fahey
Self portrait.
Margin below image in pencil: 22/25 Self portrait Clairmont ’78
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]
[Sketch of one of Mr Arthur’s twin sons.]
verso original mount: Painted by T. Woollaston 30 Oct 1933 at Ratanui homestead, at that date owned by Mr M. Arthur. This is a sketch of one of his twin sons; label: Darby & Hannan, New Plymouth