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Black window, Port Chalmers.
Framed by Roger Hicken
I am.
Lower right (l.r.): McCahon Feb ’54; on backing: C. McCahon I Am C.O.B.; on front of frame: 79.
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
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…
Northland triptych: O New Zealand, why does nobody love you.
Part 2 of a 3-part work.
Northland triptych: Oh God, God, I know what you want.
Part 1 of a 3-part work.
Northland triptych: To know it is to love it.
Part 3 of a 3-part work.
Ruia Ruia Opea Opea Tahia Tahia.
Lower right (l.r.): Hotere ’70; u.l. - u.r.: [title].
Sangro, a landscape.
Lower right (l.r.): Hotere Avignon ’78; on image: [Maori inscriptions].
Sangro, a rosary of olive trees, landscape of windswept manuka.
Lower left (l.l.): Hotere Avignon ’78; Sangro, a rosary of olive trees, landscape of windswept manuka from a poem by Cilla
See the stirring of the Lake.
No 1 of a series of 15 drawings commissioned by Peter McLeavey to commemorate the twelfth year of his gallery’s existence.
Sun - love poem 1.
Lower left (l.l.) in pencil: Drawing for a love poem by Warren Dibble Hotere ’65; through image in pencil: Let me live on your wrist. Hood me with a habit spun of your love and I shall fly, no hawk but an Icarus, to the darkness inside your sun.
Sun - love poem 2.
Lower right (l.r.) in pencil: Drawing for a love poem by Warren Dibble Hotere ’65; through image in pencil: Let me live on your wrist. Hood me with a habit spun of your love and I shall fly, no hawk but an Icarus, to the darkness inside your sun.
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…
The curtain of Solomon.
Originally three panels, the centre one apparently destroyed by the artist after CSA exhibition.
The curtain of Solomon.
Originally three panels, the centre one apparently destroyed by the artist after CSA exhibition.
The voyage - second version.
Lower right (l.r.): Hotere Port Chalmers 75-76; through image: [various inscriptions] throughout
The Wake for Thor : Panel 10
10. no text - kauri; Lower left: McCahon ’58
The Wake for Thor : Panel 12
12. no text - kauri; Lower left: McCahon ’58
The Wake for Thor : Panel 15
15. no text - kauri
The Wake for Thor : Panel 16
16. no text - kauri; Lower left.: McCahon ’58.
The Wake for Thor : Panel 2
2: no text - landscape. Lower left: McCahon ’58
The Wake for Thor : Panel 4
4. no text - kauri. Lower left: McCahon ’58
The Wake for Thor, Great Dane. John Caselberg.
1. Title; 1785 x 1265 mm; Inscribed: John Caselberg. The Wake for Thor, Great Dane; l.r.: McCahon ’58; centre right edge: Titirangi, 1957; verso: rejected version