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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

JOURNEYS OF THE LATE 1930s AND 1940s

Rita Angus was a keen traveller, finding new subjects and fresh inspiration in her journeys. ‘Live in a suitcase,’ she advised her sister Jean.

As a pacifist, Angus also travelled to find work that was not classified as ‘essential’ to the war effort. In 1941, for example, she picked tobacco with friends at Pangatotara, in Nelson, and designed toys for a cooperative in Wellington.

Central Otago, Nelson, Greymouth, Banks Peninsula, and the Kapiti Coast were among the other places she painted.

As an artist, Angus strongly identified with the natural world. As well as landscapes she painted exquisite watercolours of flowers and other plants, some from her home in Christchurch.