Colin McCahon, 'Scared', 1976 - Print - wholesale xmas Other connections are suggested too

Other connections are suggested too

Stephanie Gibson is Curator Contemporary Life & Culture at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

Ranea Aperahama

this book’s lively stories tell the tales of some of the taonga held at Aotearoa New Zealand’s famous national museum

Colin McCahon, 'Scared', 1976 - Print - wholesale xmas Other connections are suggested tooColin McCahon developed a keen sense of purpose as an artist very early in life. In 1939, at the age of twenty, he wrote: The force of painting as propaganda for social reform is immense if properly wielded 1 Concerned with the human condition, he maintained a powerful desire to communicate even as he pursued an increasingly austere painterly vision. In his late work he used white paint, emerging from a dark background, to suggest the possibility of