Otago Peninsula

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Title

Otago Peninsula

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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

Collection

Te Papa Collections Online

Description

Text originally created for Toi Te Papa: Art of the Nation exhibition at Te Papa, October 2006 - January 2011. Otago Peninsula was familiar territory for Colin McCahon, who grew up in Dunedin and later attended art school there.   In describing his work, McCahon said, ‘I saw something logical, orderly and beautiful belonging to the land … My work has largely been to communicate this vision and invent a way to see it.’ Here he has painted the peninsula stripped of details, its bare forms exp...

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Image

Date created

1946

Creator

Colin McCahon

URL

https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/41605

Related subjects

Landscape paintings / Peninsulas / Hills / Otago Peninsula (New Zealand) / oil paint / gesso / hardboard / paintings / Dunedin

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