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The exhibition / Early years 1929-39 / A pacifist vision 1938-58 / Later journeys 1958-70

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Select an artwork from the list below - research that work in The Exhibition part of this website. Find out what was happening in Rita Angus's life when she made it, what other paintings it is like, and what it might symbolise.

Now write your label in a way that will be interesting to people your own age (max.100 words).

 

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Self-portrait  1929	Cass  1936	Self-portrait  1936-37	Cleopatra  1938
Central Otago  1940	Tree  1943	Irises  1945	Portrait of Betty Curnow  1942
Self-portrait (with moth and caterpillar)  1943	Rutu  1951	Douglas Lilburn  1945	Seascape, heatwave  1949
Landscape with Sea  1953	Self-portrait with fruit  1960-61	Fog, Hawke’s Bay  1966-68	AD 1968  1968
Flight  1968-69

All artworks are reproduced courtesy of the Estate of Rita Angus.