![]() ![]() As such, her position in mid-twentieth-century New Zealand was also anomalous. When she sketched this work, Angus was a single, childless, middle-aged woman, working as a full-time painter. And though it remained unfinished, it is, perhaps, Angus’s acknowledgement of the significance of her father’s support. This work is anomalous in Angus’s painting of the 1940s – her buildings were usually subservient to the landscapes arcing around them. The house in this painting, half-drafted in pencil and a preparatory layer of watercolour, was a generous gift from Rita Angus’s father: a place for her to live rent-free and paint. This short essay was originally published in the catalogue accompanying the 2021 exhibition Rita Angus: New Zealand Modernist at Te Papa Tongarewa. ![]()
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