![]() ![]() When Marja Bloem, then curator at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, referred to McCahon as “de Van Gogh van Australasia” while talking about the motivation behind their exhibition, Colin McCahon: A Question of Faith in 2002, she was overegging the cake. It brings together two of the artist’s chief preoccupations - the pursuit of his art and his wrestling with spirituality. The title, There is Only One Direction, is shared with a powerful monochromatic Madonna and Child painted by McCahon in 1952, now in the collection of Christchurch Art Gallery, but it was also something McCahon frequently said about the singlemindedness of his modernist artistic development. Hardback, 368 pages, colour illustrationsĪugust this year marked the centennial of the birth of Colin McCahon, coinciding with the release of this spectacular first volume, Colin McCahon: There is Only One Direction, 1919-1959, of what will be a two-volume publication on the artist by Peter Simpson. Colin McCahon: There is Only One Direction, Vol. ![]()
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