Anyone who lives on milk, 1969

Record number
cm000064
Title

Anyone who lives on milk

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

Hebrews 5. / The shadows and the real (conté crayon, b.l.-b.c.); Colin McCahon / Sept 9 69 (conté crayon, b.r.)

Credit line
on loan from a private collection
Accession number
L1998/28/30
Extended inscriptions

Anyone who / lives on milk, / being an infant, / does not know / what is right. / But grown men / can take solid food / their perceptions / are framed by / long use to / discriminate between / good and evil.
Let us then stop / discussing the rudiments / of Christianity -

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 Hebrews 5:13-14 and 6:1, from the New English Bible.