Are there not twelve hours of daylight, 1970

Record number
cm000011
Title

Are there not twelve hours of daylight

Date
1970
Medium
synthetic polymer paint
Support
unstretched canvas
Dimensions
2077 x 2580 mm
Inscriptions

McCAHON FEB 70 MURIWAI (brushpoint, b.r.)

Accession number
C1994/1/144
Extended inscriptions

Are there not
twelve
hours of DAYLIGHT
Anyone can walk in daytime
without stumbling because
he sees the Light of THIS World.
But if he walks after nightfall
he stumbles because the Light fails him.

Exhibition history

1970 Colin McCahon Recent Paintings: Victory Over Death or Practical Religion
Barry Lett Galleries
Auckland
2/3/1970 - 15/3/1970

1972 An Exhibition of Paintings by Colin McCahon
Peter McLeavey Gallery
Wellington
6/3/1972 - 24/3/1972

1983 Colin McCahon: The Mystical Landscape
National Art Gallery
Wellington
12/12/1983 - 21/1/1984

1984 I will need words: Colin McCahon's Word and Number Paintings
Power Gallery of Contemporary Art, University of Sydney
Sydney
11/4/1984 - 17/6/1984

1988 Colin McCahon: Gates and Journeys
Auckland City Art Gallery
Auckland
11/11/1988 - 26/2/1989

1991 Cross Currents: Contemporary New Zealand and Australian Art from the Chartwell Collection
Waikato Museum of Art and History
Hamilton
14/7/1991 - 25/8/1991

1996 The World Over. Art in the Age of Globalisation. Under Capricorn.
City Gallery Wellington
Wellington
6/6/1996 - 18/8/1996

2002 Colin McCahon: A Question of Faith
Stedelijk Museum
Amsterdam
30/8/2002 - 10/11/2002

2011 Toi Aotearoa: Colin McCahon - Texts and Gates
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
Auckland
3/9/2011 - 28/1/2013

2019 A Place to Paint: Colin McCahon in Auckland
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
Auckland
10/8/2019 - 27/1/2020

Notes

The text is John 11:9-10, from the New English Bible.