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Boats, Island Bay  1968	View from Tinakori Road  1966-67	Before demolition  circa 1966-67
Boats, Island Bay  circa 1965	At Suzy’s Coffee Lounge  1967	Self-portrait  1967-68
Spring, Thorndon  circa 1962	Garden with magnolia tree and house  circa 1962	The artist’s studio  circa 1962
Still-life  1961-62	Self-portrait with fruit  1960-61	Wellington sketchbook  1960s
Island Bay sketchbook  circa 1968

Wellington sketchbook

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These sketchbooks include detailed drawings and day-to-day observations that Rita Angus made of the city around her. She developed some of the drawings into paintings of Thorndon and Island Bay.

Angus also used her sketchbooks to record quotes from art books that she found particularly interesting.