![]() ![]() This material enables us to begin to understand McCahon’s work as the artist himself conceived it. Simpson has enjoyed unprecedented access to McCahon’s extensive correspondence with friends, family, dealers, patrons and others. In this richly illustrated two-volume work, written in an accessible style and published to coincide with the centenary of Colin McCahon’s birth, leading McCahon scholar, writer and curator Peter Simpson chronicles the evolution of McCahon’s work over the artist’s entire forty-five-year career. Collected and exhibited extensively in Australasia and Europe, McCahon’s work has not been assessed as a whole for thirty-five years. Motifs, McCahon’s work came to define a distinctly New Zealand modernist idiom. Through landscapes, biblical paintings and abstraction, the introduction of words and Māori Colin McCahon (1919–1987) was New Zealand’s greatest twentieth-century artist. ![]() The second of an extraordinary two-volume work chronicling forty-five years of painting by our most important artist, Colin McCahon. ![]()
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