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Sketch of Ruby Bay house.
Titled by donor.
Sketch for landscape from Flagstaff.
03 in The Jack & Ethel McCahon gift to the Hocken LibraryMcCahon writes: "Below. From Flagstaff - (Taieri Plain oil 1942. c 15 x 22".
Ruby Bay.
07 in The Jack & Ethel McCahon gift to the Hocken LibraryMcCahon writes: "Left. Ruby Bay. c. 8 x 10 1/5 1936."
Red baby.
14 in The Jack & Ethel McCahon gift to the Hocken LibraryMcCahon writes: "Red baby. Watercolour. Signed vertically lower left McCahon 44 [sic] c. 24 x 20. (Anne & William) watercolour. Painted at Renwicktown, Blenheim - the red was a zoot suit thing.…
Professor William Percy Gowland, Medical School.
William Percy Gowland (1879-1965) was the Professor of Anatomy at the Otago Medical School between 1914 and 1943. He went on to become the Director of Medical Services at Wellington Hospital from 1944 to 1949.
Paintings by Colin McCahon - poster with text from the [New Zealand Listener], March 5 1948.
Originally used for the 1947 exhibition in Dunedin, but presumably modified with Listener text for the 1948 exhibition in the Wellington Public Library.
Otago Peninsula landscapes - two drawings. 2.
Lower right (l.r.) in pencil: Otago Peninsula landscapes. Colin McCahon; through image in pencil: [gridlines]; on mount: Rodney, I promised you these quite some time ago as they really belong with your painting. I don’t think they are of particular…
Otago Peninsula landscapes - two drawings. 1.
Margin u.r. in pencil: 1947; margin l.r. in pencil: Colin McCahon; on mount: Rodney, I promised you these quite some time ago as they really belong with your painting. I don’t think they are of particular value as works of art but possibly are of…
Otago Peninsula landscape - abandoned painting.
Originally verso Nelson Hills 3 Separated, titled and accessioned, August 1989.
Otago Harbour.
Lower right (l.r.) with brush: Colin McCahon 41; verso with brush: Otago Harbour Colin McCahon 1941; verso in ink: oil on gesso 25 gns; verso in ink: 24 Prestwick St, Maori Hill, Dunedin; verso in ballpoint pen: 15gns; verso in pencil: 30 green…
New Zealand ground orchid: [Pterostylis Banksii.]
Lower centre (l.c.) in ink: Colin McCahon 1940.
New Year holiday. (Corsair Bay).
Lower right (l.r). in pencil: Evelyn Page; verso in pencil: Charles Brasch 536 12 New Year Holiday Evelyn Page.
Mount Arthur Range, Nelson.
Lower right (l.r.) in ink: McCahon ’46; l.r. on mount in ink: The Mount Arthur Range, Nelson.
Montage of Medical School staff and Students, 1940.
A montage of various photographs relating to the Medical School, including images of professors, surgery scenes, and students listening to lectures.
Mixed Flowers
Lower right (l.r.) with brush: D. Lusk ’40; label: QEII; label [crossed out]: This picture was painted in 1935 when the artist was still a student at the Dunedin School of Art
Marge in the Maitai Valley, Nelson.
Lower left (l.l.) in pencil: McCahon ’47; verso in pencil: Marge in the Maitai Valley, Nelson.
Main Reading Room, Clocktower Building.
A view of students working under the high gothic ceiling in the reading room when the first library facilities were housed in the Clocktower Building.
Landscape Tahunanui.
Lower left (l.l.) in black ink: McCahon ’48; l.r. in ink: Landscape Tahunanui.
Landscape Marahau.
17 in The Jack & Ethel McCahon gift to the Hocken LibraryMcCahon writes: "The chestnut grove, Mahau Sound oil c. 14 1/2 x 20 1/2. Signed & dated Colin McCahon '44 but suggest date is wrong & should be rather earlier (ask R.E. Kennedy) A Cezanne…
Hoeing tobacco.
Lower right (l.r.) in ink: Hoeing tobacco.
Figure and cross.
Lower right (l.r.) in pencil: for Rodney, one of the drawings for your painting. McCahon
Drawing of Rodney Kennedy.
Lower right (l.r.) in pencil: Portrait of R. Kennedy. C. McCahon 1940; l.r. in REK's hand: R. Kennedy; verso: C McCahon Drawing of RE Kennedy 1/-
Drawing for ‘Dear Wee June’. In loving memory of Our Dear Wee June who fell asleep… 1945.
Lower right (l.r.) in pencil: Drawing for Dear Wee June McCahon; u.r. in pencil: Dec 27 1945 [Variously inscribed throughout]; on attached paper in pencil: This is from the Port Chalmers Cemetery looking at the Harbour mouth. The final painting was…
Dental air drill.
The first air drill purchased by the Dental School.
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.