The second of an extraordinary two-volume work chronicling forty-five years of painting by our most important artist, Colin Mc Cahon. Colin Mc Cahon (1919-1987) was New Zealand’s greatest twentieth-century artist. Through landscapes, biblical paintings, abstraction, and the introduction of words and Maori motifs, Mc Cahon’s work came to define a distinctly New Zealand modernist idiom. Collected and exhibited extensively in Australasia and Europe, Mc Cahon’s work has not been assessed as a whole for thirty-five years. In this richly illustrated two-volume work, written in an accessible style and published to coincide with the centenary of Colin Mc Cahon’s birth, leading Mc Cahon scholar, writer, and curator Dr Peter Simpson chronicles the evolution of the artist’s work over Mc Cahon’s entire forty-five-year career. Simpson has enjoyed unprecedented access to Mc Cahon’s extensive correspondence with friends, family, dealers, patrons, and others. This material enables us to begin to understand Mc Cahon’s work as the artist himself conceived it. Each volume includes over three-hundred illustrations in colour, with a generous selection of reproductions of Mc Cahon’s work (many never previously published), plus photographs, catalogue covers, facsimiles, and other illustrative material. These books will be the definitive work on New Zealand’s leading artist for many years to come.
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