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Catherine Anne McCahon, 6 weeks old today, thursday, may 17.
16 in The Jack & Ethel McCahon gift to the Hocken LibraryMcCahon writes: "Catherine Anne McCahon, 6 weeks old today, Thursday, May 17 Blue Black ink drawing. Signed Colin McCahon. 7" x 5""
New Zealand ground orchid: [Pterostylis Banksii.]
Lower centre (l.c.) in ink: Colin McCahon 1940.
Fifteen drawings.
A.cover: 15 drawings Colin McCahon December ’51 to May ’52; title page: for Charles Brasch from Colin McCahon 1952; b. The cup; c. This is a cold land; d. Light candles against the oncoming dark; f. The word was made flesh and dwelt amongst us.…
Farewell Spit.
Lower centre (l.c.) in ballpoint pen: McCahon. ’48; in pencil: Farewell Spit; verso: Farewell Spit 1948 for ‘The Promised Land’ 44.
The three Maries at the tomb.
Lower right (l.r.) in ink: McCahon ’47; l.r. on card: N.F.S.
Working drawing for stained glass windows.
Unsigned & undated. On same sheet: sketch plans for artist’s house.
Preliminary study for portrait of Gordon H. Brown.
Lower left (l.l.) in ink: Colin McCahon 1968.
Stage designs for [The Thieves Carnival, by Jean Anouilh] Act 1.
Lower right (l.r.) in red ballpoint pen: Act 1; verso: pencil drawing.
Stage designs for [The Thieves Carnival, by Jean Anouilh] Act 2.
Lower right (l.r.) in red ballpoint pen: Act 2.
Stage designs for [The Thieves Carnival, by Jean Anouilh] Act 3.
Lower right (l.r.) in red ballpoint pen: Act 3; verso: ballpoint pen drawing.
Working drawings for three paintings of the Otago Peninsula. For Hocken - view of Otago Harbour near Observatory. Follows first Peninsula painting.
Shows observatory & Ravensbourne Wharf.
Working drawings for three paintings of the Otago Peninsula. Mount Charles.
l.l. in pencil: Mt Charles; l.r. in pencil: C. McCahon; verso: pen & ink sketch inscribed: Dark light.
Working drawings for three paintings of the Otago Peninsula. Untitled.
Through image in pencil: [painting notes inscribed]; above image in pencil: [illeg inscription crossed out]; verso vertically in pencil: [illeg] from Psalms 1 25.
Working drawings for three paintings of the Otago Peninsula. Untitled.
Lower centre (l.c.) in pencil vertically: Jan 1 1946; through image in pencil; [grid lines colour notes] concave; verso: [fragmentary sketch] landscape from Port Chalmers white.
Working drawings for three paintings of the Otago Peninsula. [from] Mount Charles.
Lower right (l.r.) in pencil: C. McCahon; l.l. in pencil: Mt Charles.
Working drawings for three paintings of the Otago Peninsula. For R. Kennedy landscape.
Below image c. in ink: For R. Kennedy landscape; l.r. in ink: McCahon; through image in pencil: concave.
Working drawings for three paintings of the Otago Peninsula. Peninsula.
Lower right (l.r.) in ink: Peninsula McCahon.
Working drawings for three paintings of the Otago Peninsula. Peninsula landscape.
Lower centre (l.c.) in ink: Peninsular landscape; l.r. in ink: McCahon.
Working drawings for three paintings of the Otago Peninsula. Peninsula landscape with Harbour Cone.
Lower centre (l.c.) in ink: Peninsular landscape with Harbour Cone; l.r. in ink: McCahon.
Working drawings for three paintings of the Otago Peninsula. Harbour Cone.
Lower right (l.r.) in ink: Harbour Cone, McCahon.
Working drawings for three paintings of the Otago Peninsula. Harbour Cone, Observatory. Ravensbourne Wharf.
Lower left (l.l.) in pencil: McCahon í40; through in pencil: grid lines; verso in pencil: Harbour Cone, Observatory, Ravensbourne Wharf 45.
Working drawings for three paintings of the Otago Peninsula. For R. Kennedy landscape.
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.
Working drawings for three paintings of the Otago Peninsula. From Portobello?
Lower right (l.r.) in pencil: McCahon ’40; margin r. in pencil: from Portobello?; u.r.: [paper manufacturer’s printed inscription].
Working drawings for three paintings of the Otago Peninsula. Saddle Hill.
Lower centre (l.c.) in pencil: Saddle Hill. C. McCahon 1939.
Working drawings for three paintings of the Otago Peninsula. Otago Peninsular landscape.
Lower right (l.r.) in ink: McCahon ’40; verso in pencil: Otago Peninsular landscape, Colin McCahon 1940; paper manufacturer’s printed inscription.