MacNab, Donald George, 1912-1996

Date: 1942

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency

By: McIntyre, Peter, 1910-1995; MacNab, Donald George, 1912-1996

Reference: PAColl-4161-01-198

Description: Photographs of the paintings done by Peter McIntyre, official New Zealand war artist, during the Battle of Crete, and by Captain McNab (Donald George MacNab). Captioned photos include: Crashed German glider; Preliminary bombing of hospital; Galatos, Crete, 20 May 1941; paratroop landing in Crete, 26 Oct 1942 (Capt McNab); Candia harbour, Crete, 26 Oct 1942 (Capt McNab). Others include scenes of paratroops landing (McIntyre); two paintings of the air attack on a harbour (one by McIntyre, other unsigned). Quantity: 13 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1931 - 1999 - 2001

By: MacNab, Donald George, 1912-1996; Percy, Kevin, active 1990s

Reference: E-592-069

Description: Shows a fashionably dressed woman and child in the right foreground beside a new car, with the new nurses' home, of Spanish Mission style, in the background. The original painting won the New Zealand Technical College art prize, where contestants were required to depict a modern building,modern car, and modern fashion. Seven nurses lost their lives when this building was destroyed in 1931. Other Titles - Don McNab Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on postcard. Physical Description: Photolithograph on postcard, 120 x 177 mm. Transfers: A video from the same provenance, in which Donald McNab talks about painting a collection of pictures after the earthquake, is held at OHColl-0794-1..

Date: 1931 - 1999 - 2001

By: MacNab, Donald George, 1912-1996; Percy, Kevin, active 1990s

Reference: E-592-072

Description: Shows the hotel, damaged so that one can see into each room as in a doll's-house. The ground floor is of brick with rounded window arches. Each room is papered in a different pattern. Other Titles - Don McNab One of a series of paintings made by McNab, an eighteen-year-old student at Napier Technical College, immediately after the earthquake. He worked day and night for two days, and daily thereafter, to make a pictorial record of the event (See "Dominion", 27 January 1989, page 6). Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on postcard. Physical Description: Photolithograph on postcard, 120 x 175 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Kevin and Judy Percy in 2001. Transfers: A video from the same provenance, in which Donald McNab talks about painting a collection of pictures after the earthquake, is held at OHColl-0794-1..

Date: 1988 - 01 Jan 1988

By: MacNab, Donald George, 1912-1996

Reference: OHColl-0794-1

Description: Jock Stevenson, Nancy Rees and Donald MacNab talk about their experiences during the 1931 Napier earthquake. The video includes archival photographs and film footage of pre and post-quake Napier. Also featured is Don MacNab talking about his paintings created in the aftermath of the earthquake Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHV-1009 Quantity: 1 videocassette(s) VHS. 25 Minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - no abstract(s) available. Transfers: From Drawings & Prints Collection - See also paintings of the Napier earthquake by Donald MacNab, held in the Drawings & Prints collection (A-354-015/020, B-155-018/025, D-011-022). Search dates: 1931

Date: 1931 - 1999 - 2001

By: MacNab, Donald George, 1912-1996; Percy, Kevin, active 1990s

Reference: E-592-074

Description: Shows a view looking along the street which has rubble down both sides. A hairdresser's sign lies at the right, and electric wires are sagging. A tram line on the road is partly covered by debris. A solitary figure walks in the middle distance. Other Titles - Don McNab Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on postcard. Physical Description: Photolithograph on postcard 120 x 177 mm. Transfers: A video from the same provenance, in which Donald McNab talks about painting a collection of pictures after the earthquake, is held at OHColl-0794-1..

Date: 1931 - 1999 - 2001

By: MacNab, Donald George, 1912-1996; Percy, Kevin, active 1990s

Reference: E-592-070

Description: Shows a large pile of debris, wood, stone and red tiles, being the remains of "the once beautiful Nurses' Home where seven nurses died and many were injured". It was "once considered one of Napier's most beautiful buildings". Title information on verso. Other Titles - Don McNab Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on postcard. Physical Description: Photolithograph, on postcard 120 x 177 mm. Transfers: A video from the same provenance, in which Donald McNab talks about painting a collection of pictures after the earthquake, is held at OHColl-0794-1..

Date: 1931 - 1999 - 2001

By: MacNab, Donald George, 1912-1996; Percy, Kevin, active 1990s

Reference: E-592-073

Description: Shows the old Napier Post Office on the corner of Shakespeare Road and Browning Street, burning. An elderly lady at the right is helped by two fireman. A man in white uniform stands at the centre. Two prisoners clear rubble at the left. Notes on verso indicate that the elderly woman had walked down the hill past the fire and was dazed and blistered. The prisoners who helped were later released for this work, except for one who escaped and was later recaptured and returned to prison. Other Titles - Don McNab One of a series of paintings made by MacNab, an eighteen-year-old student at Napier Technical College, immediately after the earthquake. He worked day and night for two days, and daily thereafter, to make a pictorial record of the event (See "Dominion", 27 January 1989, page 6). Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on postcard. Physical Description: Photolithograph on postcard, 120 x 177 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Kevin and Judy Percy in 2001. Transfers: A video from the same provenance, in which Donald McNab talks about painting a collection of pictures after the earthquake, is held at OHColl-0794-1..

Date: 1931 - 1999 - 2001

By: MacNab, Donald George, 1912-1996; Percy, Kevin, active 1990s

Reference: E-592-071

Description: Top image shows a fashionably dressed woman and child in the right foreground beside a new car, with the new nurses' home, of Spanish Mission style, in the background. Lower image shows the pile of debris which was all that remained of the building after the earthquake. Seven nurses lost their lives when this building was destroyed in 1931. Other Titles - Don McNab Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on postcard. Physical Description: Photolithograph on postcard, 120 x 177 mm. Transfers: A video from the same provenance, in which Donald McNab talks about painting a collection of pictures after the earthquake, is held at OHColl-0794-1..

Date: 1931

By: MacNab, Donald George, 1912-1996

Reference: B-155-019

Description: Shows a group of three men seated on a plank reading the news bulletin during a break in their recovery work. In the right foreground two hot billies are slung on a stick. In the left background is a wrecked car, and further off the background scene is of devastated buildings. Title from accompanying slip of paper. Other Titles - Don McNab One of a series of paintings made by MacNab, an eighteen-year-old student at Napier Technical College, immediately after the earthquake. He worked day and night for two days, and daily thereafter, to make a pictorial record of the event (See "Dominion", 27 January 1989, page 6). Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 280 x 438 mm (sight) Transfers: A video from the same provenance, in which Donald McNab talks about painting a collection of pictures after the earthquake, is held at OHColl-0794-1..

Date: 1931

By: MacNab, Donald George, 1912-1996

Reference: B-155-023

Description: Shows a man in a tattered shirt standing beside a kneeling woman who tends an injured man. The sky is rose-red with fire, and firemen are using a hose on a building in the background. Title information on accompanying slip of paper. Other Titles - Don McNab Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Gouache, 358 x 255 mm (sight) Transfers: A video from the same provenance, in which Donald McNab talks about painting a collection of pictures after the earthquake, is held at OHColl-0794-1..

Date: 1931

By: MacNab, Donald George, 1912-1996

Reference: D-011-022

Description: Shows the old Napier Post Office on the corner of Shakespeare Road and Browning Street, burning. An elderly woman at the right is helped by two fireman. A man in white uniform stands at the centre. Two prisoners clear rubble at the left. Notes accompanying the painting indicate that the elderly woman had walked down the hill past the fire and was dazed and blistered. The prisoners who helped were later released for this work, except for one who escaped and was later recaptured and returned to prison. Reproduced as a postcard (at E-592-073) Other Titles - Don McNab One of a series of paintings made by MacNab, an eighteen-year-old student at Napier Technical College, immediately after the earthquake. He worked day and night for two days, and daily thereafter, to make a pictorial record of the event (See "Dominion", 27 January 1989, page 6). Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 420 x 680 mm (sight) Transfers: A video from the same provenance, in which Donald McNab talks about painting a collection of pictures after the earthquake, is held at OHColl-0794-1..

Date: 1931

By: MacNab, Donald George, 1912-1996

Reference: B-155-025

Description: Shows a man in the foreground carrying another man on his back, while a policeman sits at the left, and a group wearing handkerchiefs over their faces sort through the debris at the right. Title on slip of paper accompanying the work. Other Titles - Don McNab Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 240 x 402 mm. Transfers: A video from the same provenance, in which Donald McNab talks about painting a collection of pictures after the earthquake, is held at OHColl-0794-1..

Date: 1931

By: MacNab, Donald George, 1912-1996

Reference: B-155-018

Description: Shows the hotel, damaged so that one can see into each room as in a doll's-house. The ground floor is of brick with rounded window arches. Each room is papered in a different pattern. Title from accompanying slip of paper. The slip also notes that the proprietress was among the dead. Reproduced as a postcard (at E-592-072) Other Titles - Don McNab One of a series of paintings made by MacNab, an eighteen-year-old student at Napier Technical College, immediately after the earthquake. He worked day and night for two days, and daily thereafter, to make a pictorial record of the event (See "Dominion", 27 January 1989, page 6). Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 383 x 283 mm (sight) Transfers: A video from the same provenance, in which Donald McNab talks about painting a collection of pictures after the earthquake, is held at OHColl-0794-1..

Date: 1931

By: MacNab, Donald George, 1912-1996

Reference: B-155-020

Description: Shows one remaining wall, two storeys high, of the brick hotel. There is debris in the left foreground. Title from accompanying slip of paper. Other Titles - Don McNab One of a series of paintings made by MacNab, an eighteen-year-old student at Napier Technical College, immediately after the earthquake. He worked day and night for two days, and daily thereafter, to make a pictorial record of the event (See "Dominion", 27 January 1989, page 6). Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 272 x 405 mm (sight) Transfers: A video from the same provenance, in which Donald McNab talks about painting a collection of pictures after the earthquake, is held at OHColl-0794-1..

Date: 1931

By: MacNab, Donald George, 1912-1996

Reference: B-155-021

Description: Shows a general view of the street covered in debris and flanked by the shells of damaged buildings. Servicemen in white uniforms are looking at the mess and helping to clear it. The building at the right has the name "G. Cox" painted on it. Title from accompanying slip of paper. Other Titles - Don McNab One of a series of paintings made by MacNab, an eighteen-year-old student at Napier Technical College, immediately after the earthquake. He worked day and night for two days, and daily thereafter, to make a pictorial record of the event (See "Dominion", 27 January 1989, page 6). Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 278 x 408 mm (sight) Transfers: A video from the same provenance, in which Donald McNab talks about painting a collection of pictures after the earthquake, is held at OHColl-0794-1..

Date: 1931

By: MacNab, Donald George, 1912-1996

Reference: B-155-024

Description: Shows a large pile of debris, wood, stone and red tiles, being the remains of "the once beautiful Nurses' Home where seven nurses died and many were injured". It was "once considered one of Napier's most beautiful buildings". Title information on accompanying slip of paper. Reproduced on cards (see E-592-070 and E-592-071). Other Titles - Don McNab Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 240 x 402 mm. Transfers: A video from the same provenance, in which Donald McNab talks about painting a collection of pictures after the earthquake, is held at OHColl-0794-1..

Date: 1931

By: MacNab, Donald George, 1912-1996

Reference: A-354-017

Description: Shows two soldiers and a fireman at the right beside a notice warning against looting. At the left a group of five men with forks and shovels sort or tidy the rubble. One of a series of paintings made by MacNab, an eighteen-year-old student at Napier Technical College, immediately after the earthquake. He worked day and night for two days, and daily thereafter, to make a pictorial record of the event (See "Dominion", 27 January 1989, page 6). Other Titles - Don McNab. Title from accompanying slip of paper. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 208 x 309 mm (sight) Transfers: A video from the same provenance, in which Donald McNab talks about painting a collection of pictures after the earthquake, is held at OHColl-0794-1..

Date: 1931

By: MacNab, Donald George, 1912-1996

Reference: A-354-018

Description: Shows a view looking along the street which has rubble down both sides. A hairdresser's sign lies at the right, and electric wires are sagging. A tram line on the road is partly covered by debris. A solitary figure walks in the middle distance. Title from accompanying slip of paper. Reproduced as a postcard (at E-592-074). Other Titles - Don McNab One of a series of paintings made by MacNab, an eighteen-year-old student at Napier Technical College, immediately after the earthquake. He worked day and night for two days, and daily thereafter, to make a pictorial record of the event (See "Dominion", 27 January 1989, page 6). Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 199 x 307 mm (sight) Transfers: A video from the same provenance, in which Donald McNab talks about painting a collection of pictures after the earthquake, is held at OHColl-0794-1..

Date: 1931

By: MacNab, Donald George, 1912-1996

Reference: A-354-019

Description: Shows a view looking along the street which has rubble down both sides. A tobacconist's pole has fallen down amongst the rubble at the right, and the electric wires have fallen since the scene in the picture at A-354-018. Five workers, their mouths covered by handkerchiefs, are trying to sort or clear the debris, while the fire rages in the buildings in the background. Title from accompanying slip of paper. Other Titles - Don McNab One of a series of paintings made by MacNab, an eighteen-year-old student at Napier Technical College, immediately after the earthquake. He worked day and night for two days, and daily thereafter, to make a pictorial record of the event (See "Dominion", 27 January 1989, page 6). Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 189 x 300 mm (sight) Transfers: A video from the same provenance, in which Donald McNab talks about painting a collection of pictures after the earthquake, is held at OHColl-0794-1..

Date: 1930

By: MacNab, Donald George, 1912-1996

Reference: B-155-022

Description: Shows a fashionably dressed woman and child in the right foreground beside a new car, with the new nurses' home, of Spanish Mission style, in the background. This painting won the New Zealand Technical College art prize, where contestants were required to depict a modern building,modern car, and modern fashion. Seven nurses lost their lives when this building was destroyed in 1931. Other Titles - Don McNab Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Gouache, 268 x 330 mm (sight) Transfers: A video from the same provenance, in which Donald McNab talks about painting a collection of pictures after the earthquake, is held at OHColl-0794-1..