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Stage designs for Peer Gynt. Series 1. 12.
Upper left (u.l.) in ballpoint pen: Act 5 Scene A, Homecoming; l.r. in ballpoint pen: 12; verso: [defaced version of Act 5 Scene 2]
Stage designs for Peer Gynt. Series 1. 11.
Upper left (u.l.) in ballpoint pen: Act 4 Scene 5, Emperor of Guelf; l.r. in ballpoint pen: 11; verso: [defaced version of Act 3 Scene 2 The parting]
Stage designs for Peer Gynt. Series 1. 10.
Upper left (u.l.) in ballpoint pen: Act 4 Scene 4 , Solveig’s song; l.r. in ballpoint pen: 10 [various other numbers crossed out].
Stage designs for Peer Gynt. Series 1. 09.
Upper left (u.l.) in ballpoint pen: Act 4 Scene 4 [erased] 3, Anita; l.r. in ballpoint pen: 9 10 [erased]
Stage designs for Peer Gynt. Series 1. 08.
Upper left (u.l.) in ballpoint pen: Act 4 Scenes 1 & 2, Morocco & Wrecked; l.r. in ballpoint pen: 8
Stage designs for Peer Gynt. Series 1. 07.
Upper centre (u.c.) in pencil: Act 3 Scene 3, Death of Aase; l.r. in pencil: 7
Stage designs for Peer Gynt. Series 1. 06.
Upper left (u.l.) in ballpoint pen: Act 3 Scene 2, The Parting; l.r. in ballpoint pen: 6
Stage designs for Peer Gynt. Series 1. 05.
Upper centre (u.c.) in pencil: Act 3 Scene 1, The Casting Ladle; l.r. in pencil: 5
Stage designs for Peer Gynt. Series 1. 04.
Upper left (u.l.) in black crayon: Act 2 Scene 3, Troll King; l.r in ballpoint pen: 4
Stage designs for Peer Gynt. Series 1. 03.
Upper left (u.l.) in pencil: Act 2 Scene 1 The Search and Act 2 Scene 2, The Green Woman; l.c. in ballpoint pen: [colour notes]; l.r. in pencil: 3
Stage designs for Peer Gynt. Series 1. 02.
Upper centre (u.c.) in ballpoint pen: Act 1 Scene 2 Wedding day; l.r. in ballpoint pen: 2; verso: [unfinished sketch]
Stage designs for Peer Gynt. Series 1. 01.
Upper centre (u.c.) in pencil: Act 1 Scene 1, Mother & Son; l.r. in pencil: 1
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…
Swan Lake, stage design 2.
Verso each pair in pencil: A B C D [respectively].
Saddle Hill from Taieri Mouth.
32 in The Jack & Ethel McCahon gift to the Hocken LibraryMcCahon writes: "Colin McCahon - Saddle Hill watercolour c. 1937-38"
From the north end of Tomahawk Beach.
12 in The Jack & Ethel McCahon gift to the Hocken LibraryMcCahon writes: "Landscape from North end of Tomahawk beach, Dunedin. 9 3/4 x 11 1/2. watercolour. Signal hill in distance. These two date mid 30s - the bottom one I like-"
Ruby Bay.
07 in The Jack & Ethel McCahon gift to the Hocken LibraryMcCahon writes: "Left. Ruby Bay. c. 8 x 10 1/5 1936."
Untitled.
Verso in pencil: This way up. Colin McCahon; verso in pencil in different hand: Art School period.
Taieri Mouth.
Lower right (l.r.) in pencil: Colin McCahon; verso: Taieri Mouth.
Brighton.
Lower right (l.r.) in pencil: Colin McCahon; verso: Brighton.
Painting.
Lower right (l.r.): McCahon 17.9.62; verso: [artist's name & date]; Ikon Gallery label on stretcher inscribed: 'Painting' Colin McCahon.
Greetings to Mondrian's Chrysanthemum of 1908. Kaipara Flat.
Lower left (l.l.) in pencil: Greetings to Mondrian’s Chrysanthemum of 1908; l.r. in pencil: Colin McCahon August 1971 Kaipara Flat; papermakers chop: Steinbach Malmedy; label: Mollers Gallery.
John in Canterbury.
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…
Titirangi, Winter.
Lower left (l.l.): McCahon May ’ 57, Aug Sept 1, Titirangi; l.r. Winter.
Manukau 3.
Lower left (l.l.): [title] McCahon Jan ’54