Colin McCahon, 'The Angel of the Annunciation', 1947 - Print Science and Nature

Colin McCahon, 'The Angel of the Annunciation', 1947 - Print Science and NatureCommenting on The Groups 1947 exhibition, in which these paintings were shown, critic and poet ARD Fairburn suggested that they might pass as graffiti on the walls of some celestial lavatory. 1 Fairburns assessment was far from typical of the reception of Colin McCahons work at this time. Poet James K Baxter wrote about it enthusiastically, as did the historian JC Beaglehole. Even reviewers who found McCahons paintings challenging were prepared to

perfect for every New Zealander

Peter Adds

hand coloured photo's to come out of New Zealand between the 1950s and 1970s and changed the way we saw our country

as McCahon revealed to a friend: ‘The inspiration — the legend from a Rinso packet & the yellow I suppose from Byzantium’

Rather than the sea

By Rachel Haydon

This Sea Lion is a collection by Antics featuring birds

There she was constrained by a lack of art supplies and so she worked as a printmaker

bird movements and migrations

From the series: Extinct Birds of New Zealand by Alan Tennyson

subjects and styles

True Size - 560 x 310mm including an 8mm border