• <em>Northland triptych</em>, 1959
  • <em>Northland triptych</em>, 1959
  • <em>Northland triptych</em>, 1959
  • <em>Northland triptych</em>, 1959

Northland triptych, 1959

Record number
cm000829
Title

Northland triptych

Date
1959
Medium
enamel
Support
3 hardboard panels
Dimensions
1: 1215 x 607 mm
2: 1210 x 607 mm
3: 1217 x 607 mm
Inscriptions

1: A. ONE / from left / NORTHLAND / TRIPTYCH / SOLPAH / CAT. NO. 3. (on reverse)
2: B. / TWO / from / left / NORTHLAND / TRIPTYCH / SOLPAH / CAT. NO. 3. (on reverse)
3: McCahon 15. 3. 59 (brushpoint, l.r.); C. THREE / from / left / NORTHLAND / TRIPTYCH / SOLPAH / CAT NO 3 (on reverse)

Credit line
given by Colin McCahon, Auckland, 1978
Accession number
78/167-169
Extended inscriptions

1: Oh God, God. (t.l.-t.c.); I Know / what / you want. (l.l.-b.c.)
2: New Zealand why / does nobody / love you. (t.l.-t.r.)
3: To Know it is / to love it (t.l.-t.c); O william O / Catherine O / [illegible] forgive / me for loving this / land (l.l.-b.c.)

Exhibition history

1959 Colin McCahon. Recent Paintings, November 1958 - August 1959
Gallery 91
Christchurch
6/10/1959 - 18/10/1959

2006 Colin McCahon: The Titirangi Years: 1953-1959
Lopdell House
Auckland
25/8/2006 - 8/10/2006

2016 Highlights at Hocken
University of Otago Library
Otago
27/5/2016 - 22/10/2016