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Central Otago  1953-56/1969	Arrowtown (Coronet Peak from Speargrass Flat)  1953	Sketch for Central Otago (Lake Wakatipu and the Remarkables)  1953
Sketch for Central Otago (Naseby)  1953	Sketch for Central Otago (Naseby)  1953	Sketch for Central Otago (Cecil Peak, Arrowtown)  1953
Sketch for Central Otago (Naseby)  1953	Flood, Hawke’s Bay  1955-56	Flood, Hawke’s Bay  1955
Landscape with Arum Lily  1953	Fungi  circa 1956-57	Landscape with Sea  1953
Mangonui  1953	Mangonui  1953	Northland  circa 1955
Clouds and sea  circa 1953	Clouds and sea  circa 1953	Harbour scene and bush  1950
Waikanae  1951	Seashore, Waikanae  1952	Seascape, heatwave  1949
Iris  1953	Garden, Waikanae  circa 1952	Colour notes  1950s
Plum tree at Waikanae  1952	Autumn  1951

Seascape in heatwave

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Rita Angus was delighted by a heatwave that hit Christchurch in February 1949.

‘I went swimming today in a heat wave, this side of the Cave Rock, and the sound of the breakers was terrific, while the sky was purple-blue overhead and green-blue. A beautiful Polynesian day … I was almost alone & collected a number of tiny shells for another painting.’

Angus depicts these shells in Seascape in heatwave, exaggerating their size to give her picture a dreamlike quality.