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Dear Colin, Dear Ron: The Selected Letters of Colin McCahon and Ron O’Reilly brooch Stitch Perfect boundA long friendship in art and ideas through letters. By Peter Simpson Publication date: April 2024 NZ RRP (incl. GST): $65 Extent: 528 pages Format: Hardback ISBN: 978 1 99 116552 7 This substantial book of letters, selected by esteemed Colin McCahon scholar Peter Simpson, illuminates one of the most remarkable relationships in New Zealand art. The painter Colin McCahon and the librarian Ron OReilly first met in 1938, in Dunedin, when McCahon was 19