Official invitation to the McCahon Retropsective Auckland Art Gallery (detail)
Reverse side of the official invitation to the McCahon Retropsective Auckland Art Gallery (detail)
This exhibition is now closed
This exhibition which was organised by the Auckland Art Gallery concentrated mainly on works since the early 'fifties, around the time McCahon moved to Auckland from Christchurch. Some representative paintings were included to give an idea of McCahon's earlier development. Many of the 72 works exhibted were from the artist's own collection – some of them exhibited for the first time.
Recitals of poetry and writing influential in McCahon's works were also held including readings by Olivia Spencer Bower, Selwyn Hamblett, Annette Facer, John Summers, Jonathan Mané and Stephen Smithyman.
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Date:
31 May – 14 July 1972 -
Exhibition number:
50
Collection works in this exhibition
Related reading: Colin McCahon
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Canterbury Landscape by Colin McCahon
In 2014 we purchased an important landscape work by Colin McCahon. Curator Peter Vangioni speaks about this new addition to Christchurch Art Gallery’s collection.
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‘Where the picture stops and the world begins’
The way a work of art is framed affects our perception of the piece. A bad frame can detract and distract, a good frame enhances and even extends a work. While the Gallery has been closed we have updated frames for a number of works in the collection.
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Kauri tree landscape by Colin McCahon
This article first appeared as 'Mighty kauris inspired McCahon' in The Press on 10 February 2015.
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as there is a constant flow of light
On a recent printer's residency at the Otago University's Otakou Press Colin McCahon's huge mural painting Waterfall Theme and variations dominated proceedings.
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Light Passing Into a dark landscape
Today is the centennial of the death of one of New Zealand's most treasured artists, Petrus van der Velden.
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There is only one direction by Colin McCahon
This article appeared as 'Divine Innovation' in the The Press on 31 August 2012.
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As there is a constant flow of light we are born into the pure land
After many, many months in the 'Darkness' of the empty gallery, I can think of no better words than those of Colin McCahon to signify the opening of the new gallery shop at 40 Lichfield Street.
Drop in Mon-Fri 10am-5pm, 10am-4pm Weekends
See you all soon!
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O'Reilly/McCahon: an Easter meditation
An Easter-themed excerpt from an article published in 2010 in The Journal of New Zealand Art History...
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Sutton high-fives McCahon
Nothing made it into a W.A. Sutton painting by accident, and the white line that rises diagonally through the sky in Plantation Series II is no exception.