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Colin McCahon Online Catalogue

Find out more about Colin McCahon's work in the Colin McCahon Online Catalogue, run by the Colin McCahon Research and Publication Trust.

Colin McCahon: I Am

Watch excerpts from Paul Swadel's McCahon documentary on NZOnScreen.

Rārangi pukapuka

Bloem, M., & M. Browne. Colin McCahon: a question of faith. Amsterdam, 2002

Brown, G. H. Colin McCahon. Rev. ed. Auckland, 1993

Brown, G.H. Towards a promised land: on the life and art of Colin McCahon. Auckland, 2010

Curnow, W. The critic's part: Wystan Curnow art writings 1971–2013. Ed. C. Barton and R. Leonard. Wellington, 2014

Curnow, W. I will need words: Colin McCahon's word and number paintings. Wellington, 1984

Curnow, W. and R. Leonard. Colin McCahon: On going out with the tide, 8 April–30 July 2017: an exhibition of Colin McCahon works from the 1960s and 1970s, exploring his evolving engagement with Māori themes and subjects: exhibition guide. Wellington, 2017

Paton, J. McCahon country. Auckland, 2019

Simpson, P. Answering hark: McCahon/Caselberg, painter/poet. Nelson, 2001

Simpson, P. Bloomsbury South: the arts in Christchurch, 1933–1953. Auckland, 2016

Simpson, P. Colin McCahon: is this the promised land? Vol. 2, 1960–1987. Auckland, 2020

Simpson, P. Colin McCahon: the Titirangi years, 1953–59. Auckland, 2007

Simpson, P. Colin McCahon: there is only one direction. Vol. 1, 1919–1959. Auckland, 2019

Tyler, L. ‘“I do not want to be Mrs Colin’: Anne & Colin McCahon’. In Between the lives: partners in art. Ed. D. Shepard. Auckland, 2005, pp.31–53

Waite, J. Freedom & structure: cubism and New Zealand art 1930–1960. Auckland, 2017

Wood, A. Colin McCahon: the man and the teacher. Auckland, 1997

Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Gordon H. Brown. 'McCahon, Colin John', Ngā Tāngata Taumata Rau, i tāngia tuatahitia ki 2000. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/biographies/127475/sources (accessed 4 June 2026).