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Central Otago  1940	Marjorie Marshall  1938-39/1943	Self-portrait (Wanaka)  1939
Central Otago landscape  1940	Landscape (Wanaka)  1939	Landscape  1939
Winter, Wanaka  1939	Lake Wanaka  1938	Untitled landscape  1939
Mountains and Foothills  1939	Mount Maud  1938	Waipara Gorge, North Canterbury  1939
Hop kilns, Motueka  1941	Wainui, Mid-Summer, Banks Peninsula  1943	Haycocks, Wainui  1943
The artist’s cottage, Clifton  circa 1945	Willow tree  1940	Tree  1943
Tree in blossom  1946	Storm  1945	Passionflower  1943
Irises  1942	Nasturtiums  1939	Crocusses  1944
Aquilegia  1953	Carnations  1945	Karaka berries  1945
Irises  1945

Willow Tree

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In 1940, Rita Angus lived in a flat in the Christchurch suburb of Fendalton. She could see this willow tree from her window.

Angus and her friend Betty Curnow were fascinated by Chinese art at the time, and they both sketched the willow in a ‘Chinese’ style. Angus later gave this drawing to Curnow.

The artist Theo Schoon tried to persuade Curnow to give or sell the work to him, but she turned him down – ‘I could not part with it.’