Harbour Cone from Peggy's Hill

Harbour Cone from Peggy's Hill (1939) is an early oil painting by New Zealand artist Colin McCahon.

"[1] In a letter to his friend Toss Woollaston he explained: I imagined people looking at it then looking at the landscape and for once really seeing it & being happier for it & believing in God & then the

brotherhood of men & the futility of war.Because of comments such as these, the painting has been read as an evangelical statement designed to connect together God, peace, and the landscape.

It was excluded from the 1939 Otago Art Society exhibition, despite the fact that each member (including McCahon) was entitled to display one work.

Linda Tyler believes that this rejection was due to the absence of support "from an interested and informed public.