Drawing for ‘Dear Wee June’. In loving memory of Our Dear Wee June who fell asleep… 1945.

Drawing for ‘Dear Wee June’. In loving memory of Our Dear Wee June who fell asleep… 1945 by Colin McCahon.
Reproduction permission courtesy of the Colin McCahon Research and Publication Trust.

1945

Hocken Pictorial Collections - 87/79

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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 of this stone with bird etc but against Nelson Hills. Dated Dec 27 1945.

210 x 249 mm (pasted to paper: 490 x 260 mm (irreg folded))

pencil on paper

Given by Mr R.E. Kennedy, Dunedin, 1956.