<em>A word with you</em>, 1969
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A word with you, 1969

Record number
cm000056
Title

A word with you

Date
1969
Medium
conté
Support
paper
Dimensions
1680 x 650 mm
Inscriptions

James 5 Practical Religion (conté crayon, b.l.); Colin McCahon Sept 5 '69 (conté crayon, b.r.)

Credit line
on loan from a private collection
Accession number
L1998/28/27
Extended inscriptions

A word with you / you who say, Today / or tomorrow we will / go off to such & such / a town and spend a / year there trading / and making money" / yet you have no idea / what tomorrow will bring / Your life what is it? / You are nothing more than / a mist seen for a little / while then dispersing / What you ought to / say is: "If it be the / Lord's will we shall / live to do this or that." / But instead you boast & brag, and / all such boasting is wrong. / The man who knows the good / he ought to do and does not / do it is a sinner

Exhibition history

1969 Written paintings and drawings: Colin McCahon
Barry Lett Galleries
Auckland
6/10/1969 - 17/10/1969

2001 He Kupu Noatu: Paintings by Colin McCahon
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
Auckland
2/5/2001 - 19/8/2001

Notes

The text is James 4:13-17 (not James 5 as inscribed), from the New English Bible.