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Rita Angus

Rita Angus (1908 - 1970) was active/lived in New Zealand.  Rita Angus is known for Landscape paintings.

Attending Christchurch’s Canterbury School of Art in 1927, Rita Angus would go on to become highly influential in the development of modern and regionalist art, capturing the identity and presence of New Zealand with sensitive conviction. Angus exhibited frequently with the Canterbury Society of Arts and The Group. It would not be until thirty years into her artistic career that she would have her first solo exhibition in 1957 at the Centre Gallery in Wellington, exhibiting forty three works. Angus was represented in three exhibitions at the Auckland Art Gallery in the fifties, notably Five New Zealand Watercolourists, Nov - Dec 1958. A sister painting of the work in this catalogue, also titled Westshore, Napier was exhibited, dated six years prior to this entry but of similar size. Born in Hastings, Angus spent a large amount of her childhood in Napier, frequently returning to the city throughout her adult life, often for extended periods of time. Westshore, Napier was exhibited th   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2902 characters.]  Artist bio

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