![]() Simpson's writing is clear, persuasive, referenced in the works illustrated and is deftly explanatory when placing ideas and art in tandem. ![]() With easy intelligence he teases apart the threads of McCahon's life and art during this period of magisterial painting and some personal abysses.Īlthough a beautifully presented and handsomely illustrated biography-cum-reference book, it needs to be said these two volumes are as much written for the lay reader who may have encountered some of McCahon's expansive oeuvre and perhaps have been a little sceptical about the acclaim he accrued in his life and beyond. Simpson now picks up this story with his customary engagement and attention to detail while offering the bigger picture. McCahon had moved to Auckland after a successful career in the South Island, had turned 40 and – although he could not know this – was at the midpoint of his artistic career. ![]() When Peter Simpson left Colin McCahon at the end of the first volume of this superb series, the artist was at a turning point. ![]()
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