Auckland Art Gallery
A Place to Paint: Colin McCahon in Auckland
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
by Julie Ewington •
18 December 2019
New Zealander Colin McCahon is the greatest postwar artist of the two antipodean countries. Hands down. In his own country, McCahon (1919–87) is a household name, and the exhibition A Place to Paint: Colin McCahon in Auckland at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, and the associated publication of Justin Paton’s McCahon Country (Penguin Books), celebrate his centenary. Surprisingly, though, many Australians don’t know McCahon’s work.
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