Prayer for the second coming, 1969

Record number
cm000947
Title
Prayer for the second coming
Date
1969
Medium
conté
Support
paper
Dimensions
1489 x 549 mm
Inscriptions
Prayer for the second coming / Peter Hooper. (conté crayon, b.l.); Colin McCahon / August 26. '69 (conté crayon, b.r.)
Extended inscriptions
a vessel / a cup or something / is for carrying things / liquids mostly / something nourishing / if you scooped out / the sea it would / leave a pretty big hole / bowl-shaped / jagged at the edges / but deep enough / to contain some / of man's folly / and hate
but who would / carry it away?
Exhibition history

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

Notes
The text is from Peter Hooper's poem 'Prayer for the second coming', from Journey towards an elegy and other poems (Nag's Head Press, Christchurch, 1969).