Colin McCahon, Comet, 1974. Synthetic polymer paint on jute canvas, dimensions variable. Courtesy: the artist’s estate and Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland.

To mark the centenary of Colin McCahon’s birth, Gow Langsford Gallery celebrates the preeminent New Zealand modernist with an exhibition of his paintings on loose canvas.

Across the Earth: 100 Years of Colin McCahon unites a collection of significant paintings that exemplify the artist’s distinctive treatment of the New Zealand landscape, and demonstrates the austere spiritualism endemic to his practice. Focussing on loose canvases of McCahon’s Muriwai period, the exhibition explores the immediacy of raw materials in the works of the giant of New Zealand painting.

Exhibition Opens: 5–7pm Tuesday 16 July 2019. 

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