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Featured artist: Colin McCahon

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DescriptionHocken Collections holds one of the most important collections of McCahon’s art in New Zealand in addition to significant archives and photographs relating to his life and work. Over 300 artworks have been digitised so far and are available to view on this site.
The Hocken began collecting New Zealand modernism in the 1950s because enlightened professionals such as former Hocken Librarians H.D. Skinner and Michael Hitchings and professional staff such as Hocken Art Curators Gordon Brown and Tim Garrity, worked alongside cultural patrons including Charles Brasch, Rodney Kennedy, Patricia France, John Caselberg and the McCahon family to ensure works by McCahon and other New Zealand modernists were represented in the Hocken’s art collection. Aware of the significant role Dunedin had played in shaping the beginnings of New Zealand modernism, they considered the Hocken, as a research collection accessible to all, the best place for important examples of this work to be housed. Their endeavours, combined with the University of Otago’s support, is the reason why the Hocken’s McCahon collection is so outstanding.
As we continue our work on these important collections, further items will become available to view here.Collection SummaryArtworks, photographs, ephemera and archives relating to Colin McCahon

Art

The Virgin and Child compared

Sketch for Window

Gate print

Dark trees, Dunedin

Brooch

Book cover design for Chart to my Country by John Caselberg

Dunedin Observatory and Ravensbourne wharf

Working drawings for three paintings of the Otago Peninsula. Peninsula landscape with lamp

4YA. 4ZB. Highcliff.

Mount Charles

Working drawings for three paintings of the Otago Peninsula. Drawing for the Fleischl picture

Working drawings for three paintings of the Otago Peninsula. Peninsula landscape

Working drawings for three paintings of the Otago Peninsula. Otago Peninsular landscape

Working drawings for three paintings of the Otago Peninsula. Saddle Hill

From Portobello?

Working drawings for three paintings of the Otago Peninsula. For R. Kennedy landscape

Photograph

Colin McCahon and others, Motueka

Colin McCahon

Anne McCahon (née Hamblett)

Rodney Kennedy, Colin McCahon, W.H. Allen and daughters

Colin McCahon (right) and unidentified man

Colin McCahon, Doris Lusk, Rodney Kennedy and Elespie Forsyth at Mapua

Charles Brasch at McCahon exhibition

Charles Brasch in Rodney Kennedy's room at Royal Terrace with Colin McCahon's 'Otago Peninsula' above the mantelpiece

I am

Depicts Or Relates To

NamesMcCahon, Colin, 1919-1987 (Colin John)

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