My health seems to be on the improve and my week as a single mum has ended (phew!) so I have the time and energy to review some small wonders of the week.
I read a new book by Martin Edmond “The Supply Party“. I may do a proper review in future but for now I will saythis book about Ludwig Becker’s journey with the Burke and Wills expedition was delightful. Although on the surface a straightforward story, it made me think and question many things. Like Mollie the elephant buried in Ohakune, the Australian outback seems an unlikely resting place for Becker.
I have also started reading “A Question of Balance: Artists and Writers on Motherhood“. So far there are some excellent insights.
I went past the Dunedin Art Gallery today, as I didn’t feel up to the Di Ffrench: Activating Ideas exhibition. Maybe I will…I went to the public Library instead which has some pretty amazing art. I really liked a large Nigel Brown Baxter painting and a funny picture “Baxter as a Postie Dreaming of Brighton” by Lindsay Crooks. I see they are doing a tour of the art on Friday 20th March. One work really struck me though. McCahon’s Otago Peninsula (the Kennedy one).
Otago Peninsula[Kennedy] (1946 – 1949) Colin McCahon
It hadn’t really registered there are two of these paintings, another being at Te Papa. In fact it seems there are three as the library website says “This painting is the third in a series of Otago Peninsula painted by McCahon during the period 1946-48. McCahon painted it for his friend, Rodney Kennedy.”
Otago Peninsula(1946) Colin McCahon – The one at Te Papa
My search skills have failed me as I can’t find the 3rd on the McCahon Database (help me out people)
March 14, 2009 at 9:58 am |
Wouldn’t have a clue about any third one, except to say “Harbour Cone from Peggy’s Hill” (1939 – so too early to be the third they’re talking about) is in the Hocken Collection and is from about the same angle.
October 27, 2009 at 12:46 am |
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