Portrait of a Lady by T.S. Eliot (1917) I take my hat: how can I make a cowardly amends For what she has said to me? ...

Rita Angus

Painting of Cass railway station by Rita Angus

Portrait of a Lady by T.S. Eliot (1917) I take my hat: how can I make a cowardly amends For what she has said to me? ...

Rita Angus and her neighbour Lawrence Baigent had much in common beyond their friendship with Leo Bensemann. Both loved poetry, literature, and music, and both were pacifists. Angus painted this portrait of Baigent in the late 1930s. She added the...

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Rita Angus never finished this work, which she painted after visiting her friend

Timmy Angus married Rita Angus’s brother Douglas, and Rita and Timmy soon became close friends. In 1952, Rita announced that it was time to paint Timmy’s portrait – only days after Timmy’s mother had died. Timmy protested but eventually gave...

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This is one of Rita Angus’s most important early works, which she painted while still a student. ‘The Aviatrix’ is Angus’s sister Edna, one of the first women in New Zealand to hold a pilot’s licence. Edna radiates the cool confidence of a modern...