Colin McCahon Kauri tree landscape 1956. Oil on board. Collection of Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū, donated from the Canterbury Public Library Collection, 2001. Reproduced courtesy of Colin McCahon Research and Publication Trust
This exhibition is now closed
Colin McCahon’s shift to Titirangi in 1953 was a watershed moment in the artist’s career, providing the inspiration for him to develop his interest in cubism and abstraction.
It was at Titirangi, among the kauri forests, the Manukau Harbour and the Waitakere Ranges that McCahon found inspiration and developed his interest in cubism and abstraction. His new home had a sun deck and he was able to do much of his painting in amongst the kauri that surrounded the house. This exhibition features McCahon works borrowed from South Island public collections to complement Christchurch Art Gallery’s own Titirangi period works.
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Date:
17 September 2016 – 6 February 2017 -
Curator:
Peter Vangioni -
Exhibition number:
1019
Collection works in this exhibition
Related reading: Colin McCahon
Exhibition
McCahon / Van der Velden
18 December 2015 – 11 September 2016
An exhibition of two of New Zealand's most respected painters.
Commentary
To Colin McCahon
James K. Baxter’s 1952 poem ‘To Colin McCahon’ is an important marker in the long and sometimes tempestuous artistic relationship the two men shared. On an immediate level, the poem is a response to McCahon’s painting There is only one direction (1952), which he presented to Jim and Jacquie Baxter to mark the birth of their daughter Hilary after they had named McCahon her godfather.
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Kauri Landscape by Colin McCahon
This article was first published as 'McCahon's brilliant prismatic dance' in The Press, 15 November 2016
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No. 9, No. 9, No. 9, No. 9…Barbour Street
Colin McCahon spent several years based in Christchurch between 1948 and 1953 during which time he rented a house in Barbour street in the inner city suburb of Phillipstown.
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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.
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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.