<em>A word to you who have great possessions</em>, 1969
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A word to you who have great possessions, 1969

Record number
cm000620
Title

A word to you who have great possessions

Date
1969
Medium
conté
Support
paper
Dimensions
1560 x 550 mm (s)
Inscriptions

James 5 - Practical Religion (conté crayon, b.l.); Colin McCahon Sept 5. (conté crayon, b.r.)

Credit line
on loan from a private collection
Accession number
L1998/28/26
Extended inscriptions

- A word to you who have / great possessions. Weep & / wail over the miserable / fate descending on you / your riches have rotted, / your fine clothes are motheaten, / your silver & gold have rusted away, / and their very rust would be evidence / against you and consume your flesh like fire / you have piled up wealth in / an age near to its close. / The wages you never paid to / the man who mowed your / fields are loud against you, / and the outcry of the reapers has / reached the Lord of Hosts. / You have lived on earth / in wanton luxury, fattening / yourself like cattle - and / the day for the slaughter has come
you have condemned the / innocent and murdered him; / he offers no resistance
Be patient, my brothers, until the Lord / Comes. The farmer looking for the / precious crop his land may yield / can only wait in patience.

Exhibition history

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

Notes

The text, with slight modifications, is James 5:1-7 from the New English Bible.