The Land and the People

Exhibition date:
1959
Location: 
Russia
Venue: 
Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts
City: 
Moscow

A touring exhibition of New Zealand Painting in the Soviet Union. A reciprocal loan exhibition with 108 works borrowed from public and private collections. The selection of works was made in October 1958 and the exhibition travelled to Moscow and elsewhere in 1959-1960. The McCahon works shown were Domestic Landscape, collection of the artist, and Harriet Simeon, collection of Dr Fleischl. 

Text extracted from: Marja Bloem and Martin Browne, Colin McCahon: A Question of Faith. Craig Potton Publishing, New Zealand, 2002, p. 252.

Exhibition artworks