Colin John McCahon (/ məˈkɑːn /; 1 August 1919 – 27 May 1987) [1] was a New Zealand artist whose work over 45 years consisted of various styles, including landscape, figuration, abstraction, and the overlay of painted text.

Colin McCahon is widely recognised as New Zealand’s 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.

Colin McCahon is widely recognised as New Zealand’s 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.

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.

Welcome to the online catalogue of the work of New Zealand's foremost painter, Colin McCahon (1919-1987). This site records the ongoing project to catalogue McCahon's complete works, dating from the mid-1930s to the early 1980s.

Colin McCahon is widely recognised as New Zealand’s 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.

Nov 27, 2019 · Colin McCahon (1919-1987) is widely regarded as the most influential New Zealand artist of the twentieth century. In a career spanning almost fifty years, until his death in Auckland in 1987, McCahon developed a profoundly personal visual language that traversed vast thematic and stylistic terrain – including landscape, figuration ...

This documentary looks at the life and work of New Zealand's most celebrated painter, Colin McCahon. The first excerpt looks at McCahon's beginnings in Timaru and Dunedin, and his explorations of modernist techniques in paintings that reconceived 'the promised land' in an endemic landscape.

Colin McCahon’s works became some of the most recognisable and celebrated paintings ever to be produced in New Zealand. Born in Dunedin in 1919, McCahon regularly visited the Dunedin Public Art Gallery with his family during his childhood.

We are embarking on a project to make Colin McCahon’s 1,800+ artworks accessible to everyone. With an interactive digital archive of McCahon’s exceptional work and life, millions of people will be able to see his iconic artworks up close.