Cover design for the novel Coal Flat by Bill Pearson, 1962

Record number
cm000492
Title
Cover design for the novel Coal Flat by Bill Pearson
Date
1962
Medium
gouache
Support
paper
Dimensions
288 x 527 mm (s)
Inscriptions
For [owner's name] from Colin 1967 McCahon '62 (ballpoint pen, l.r.)
Notes
Coal Flat, by Bill Pearson, was published by Paul's Book Arcade in 1963. This image was used in the final design. Pearson says the painting was based on earlier drawings McCahon had made of the hills around Blackball, on the West Coast of the South Island. (See also the related drawings.)