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Self-portrait  1929	Poplar trees  1929-30	Blythe’s Buildings, Napier  1932
Ruins, Napier  circa 1932	Shakespeare Road, Napier  1932	The Duvauchelles pub and hills  1933
Riverbed, Waiau  1932	Mt Stewart, Waiau, North Canterbury  circa 1931-32	The Rape Paddock, Northern Hawke’s Bay  circa 1935
Hill landscape, North Canterbury  1934	The Aviatrix  1933	Mountain biological station, Cass  1936
Mountain biological station, Cass  1936	Mountains, Cass  1936	Mountains, Cass  1936
Cass  1936

Blythe's Buildings, Napier

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The 1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake, which claimed 256 lives, was alarmingly close to home for Rita Angus. Her parents had recently settled in Napier, and their house was badly damaged – although they escaped unharmed. Later, her father’s construction company, W. M. Angus Ltd, helped rebuild the city.

Angus visited Napier a year after the earthquake and sketched among the ruins.