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Portrait of Betty Curnow  1942	Wystan Curnow  1942	Wystan Curnow  1941
Mother and child (Jean and Anton Jones)  1942	Joyce Milligan  1941	Timmy  1952
Mother and child  1945	Portrait of Douglas Angus  1940	Quentin Angus  1942-44
Portrait of Fred Jones  circa 1940	Self-portrait  circa 1944	Self-portrait at Clifton  circa 1945
Self-portrait (grisaille)  1941	Self-portrait (nude, seated)  circa 1942	Study for carving torso (nude self portrait)  circa 1942
Grisaille nude self-portrait (standing)  1942	Self-portrait (with moth and caterpillar)  1943	Self-portrait (with leaves)  1945
Self-portrait  1947

Portrait of Douglas Angus

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In 1940, Douglas Angus arrived in Christchurch for a rowing tournament. To his disappointment, he was to be billeted with his big sister Rita. His attitude, however, soon changed:

‘I suddenly saw walking up the platform this most striking person, and I realised it was Rita. I was absolutely amazed that she was my sister.’

Rita took Douglas to visit friends, including the Curnows: ‘I had the time of my life,’ he recalled. Betty Curnow watched Rita paint her brother: ‘His hair is the most wonderful colour, yellow gold, & Rita has got it perfectly. There is a very great warmth in the whole work.’