Colin McCahon, 'Truth from the King Country'; 1978 - Print - wholesale rita

Colin McCahon, 'Truth from the King Country'; 1978 - Print - wholesale ritaColin McCahon is widely recognised as New Zealands foremost painter. Over 45 years, his work encompassed many themes, subjects and styles, from landscape to figuration to abstraction and an innovative use of painted text. His adaption of aspects of modernist painting to a specific local situation and his intense engagement with spiritual matters, mark him out as a distinctive figure in twentieth century art. He was born in Timaru but worked and lived

Reminiscent of the iconic fish 'n' chip shop poster

and his work is exhibited throughout New Zealand and is held in private collections in New Zealand

The text in King of the Jews also had a contemporary source

Created by us in honour of Te Papa's ground breaking exhibition Gallipoli

White graduated from the Elam School of Fine Arts (University of Auckland

Like so much of McCahon’s work

The New Zealand Horse (with Deborah Coddington)

and critic whose contribution to art in New Zealand is immense

about textiles

bird diets and community ecology

and analysis of land snails provides evidence for environmental change during the period of occupation

Late in 1971 she left for Dunedin