Colin McCahon (1919-87), New Zealand’s greatest painter, has an ever-growing reputation throughout the world.  This website documents and celebrates one portion of this rich career—the years from 1953 to 1960 when McCahon lived in the hilly bush-suburb of Titirangi by the Manukau Harbour on the outskirts of Auckland city.

Visit the McCahon House

The cottage that McCahon and his family lived in at that time has been restored and is open to the public, intermediate and secondary schools and special interest groups.

McCahon Arts Residency
The McCahon House residency aims to give artists the opportunity to develop their work through a supportive programme while living in the environment that impacted so profoundly on the work of Colin McCahon. Find out more.......

Thanks to the Colin McCahon Research and Publication Trust for  permission to publish images of McCahon paintings.