Colin McCahon, 'The Angel of the Annunciation', 1947 - Print Leslie Adkin avoiding the eye area

avoiding the eye area

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Colin McCahon, 'The Angel of the Annunciation', 1947 - Print Leslie Adkin avoiding the eye areaCommenting on The Groups 1947 exhibition, in which these paintings were shown, critic and poet ARD Fairburn suggested that they might pass as graffiti on the walls of some celestial lavatory. 1 Fairburns assessment was far from typical of the reception of Colin McCahons work at this time. Poet James K Baxter wrote about it enthusiastically, as did the historian JC Beaglehole. Even reviewers who found McCahons paintings challenging were prepared to