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Flight 1969	Trees and tombstones 1969	Tombstones with letter 1969

Tombstones from the Bolton Street cemetery 1969	Angel 1969	Juliet Peter sketching 1968-69

Headstones, Liberty 1969	Bolton Street cemetery sketchbook 1968-69	Bolton Street cemetery sketchbook 1968-69

Trees and tombstones

Trees and tombstones 1969
oil on hardboard, 608 x 598 mm
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, on loan from the Rita Angus Estate

Rita Angus’s unfinished paintings of the Bolton Street cemetery show her meticulous technique.

There are three paintings at different stages of completion.

This painting of trees and tombstones is quite far advanced, with a lot of underpainting in greys, ochres, and blues.