Waterfall with overhanging red rock

Maker
Colin John McCahon
Production date
1964
Description
This painting is an abstracted waterfall by Colin McCahon.

Colin McCahon is widely recognised as New Zealand’s foremost painter. Over 45 years, his work encompassed many themes, subjects and styles, from landscape to figuration to abstraction and an innovative use of painted text. His adaption of aspects of modernist painting to a specific local situation and his intense engagement with spiritual matters, mark him out as a distinctive figure in twentieth-century art
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Object detail

Production date
1964
Media/Materials
Oil on board
Measurements
1360 x 920mm
Production place
Collection
Department collection type
Credit line
Collection of Waikato Museum Te Whare Taonga o Waikato
Accession number
1979/36/1

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