Artist: Rita Angus (1908 - 1970)
Nationality: New Zealand
Movement: Modernism
Media: Painting
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Biography:
Born in New Zealand, Rita Angus is considered a major figure in her country’s artistic development, particularly the work she completed in the 1940’s. Painting in oils and watercolors, she primarily chose portraiture or landscape executed in a brightly colored, modernist style.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (32)
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William Angus The Seats of the Nobility and Gentry in Great Britain and Wales (Islington: W. Angus, 1787) book with engravings 1787
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William Angus Warren Hastings 18th - 19th century
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William Angus Right Honorable General Conway 18th - 19th century
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William Angus The Honorable Captain james Luttrell 18th - 19th century
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William Angus European Magazin Count de Grasse 18th - 19th century
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William Angus European Magazine, Duke of Portland 18th - 19th century
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Unknown English, 18th century Tea canister England, (probably London), about 1755-60 Enameled copper with polychrome
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Delft, Dutch Teapot The Netherlands, first quarter of the 18th century Tin-glazed faience (earthenware) decorated
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Marty Links "And look what being a redhead did for Rita Hayworth", for the syndicated cartoon series Emmy Lou pen and black ink and blue pencil~ 1951
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Paul Gavarni The Street Beggar,preceding the essay by Angus B. Reach, opposite page 7 and fourth plate in the book Gavarni in London; Sketches of Life and Character, with Illustrative essays by Popular Writers, edited by Albert Smith (London: David Bo
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Paul Gavarni The Lounger in Regent Street,preceding the essay by Angus B. Reach, opposite page 70 and sixteenth plate in the book Gavarni in London; Sketches of Life and Character, with Illustrative essays by Popular Writers, edited by Albert Smith (L
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John Angus Chamberlain - Untitled c. 1958-59 painted and welded m Cleveland Museum of Art American
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Made at Meissen Factory, German Teabowl and saucer Germany, about 1725 Hard-paste porcelain Teabowl: 4.5
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Made at Meissen Factory, German Cup and saucer Germany, about 1753 Hard-paste porcelain decorated in
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Made at Meissen Factory, German Tea canister Germany, about 1740 Hard-paste porcelain with turquoise ("celadon")
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Meissen Factory, German Possibly by Adam Friedrich von Löwenfinck, 1714-1754 Cream jug Germany, about 1730-35
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Ralph Pearson Talpa Etching 1919
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Meissen Factory, German Modeled by Johann Joachim Kändler, German, 1706-1775 Teapot Germany, about 1734 Hard-paste
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Ralph Pearson San Filipe Church Etching 1922
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Ralph Pearson Duran Chapel. Etching 1919
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Ralph Pearson Taos Pueblo Etching 1920
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Made at Sèvres Factory, French, 1756–present Cup France, 1761 Soft-paste porcelain 5.4 cm (2 1/8
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Made at Sèvres Factory, French, 1756–present Cup France, 1761 Soft-paste porcelain 5.5 cm (2 3/16
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Made at Sèvres Factory, French, 1756–present Tray France, 1761 Soft-paste porcelain 4.1 cm (1 5/8
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Made at Sèvres Factory, French, 1756–present Cream jug France, 1761 Soft-paste porcelain 8.2 cm (3
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Made at Sèvres Factory, French, 1756–present Saucer France, 1761 Soft-paste porcelain 2.8 cm (1 1/8
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Made at Sèvres Factory, French, 1756–present Saucer France, 1761 Soft-paste porcelain 2.7 cm (1 1/16
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Made at Sèvres Factory, French, 1756–present Teapot France, 1761 Soft-paste porcelain 10.4 cm (4 1/8
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Made at Sèvres Factory, French, 1756–present Sugar bowl France, 1761 Soft-paste porcelain 9 cm (3
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Ralph Pearson Lincoln Birthplace 19th - 20th century
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Ralph Pearson The Asphalters Wabash Ave. 19th - 20th century
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Container for Magical Substances, 19th–early 20th century; Toba Batak Toba Batak people; Indonesia, Sumatra, southern

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (21)
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Australian Centre for Contemporary Art: New Work - James Angus
The Seagram Building has been bent like a banana, perhaps in high cyclonic winds, and the basketball appears squashed as the result of a fall from 25,000 feet. The castle has been superimposed upon...
City Gallery Wellington, 360-Michael Hirschfeld Gallery: Four Faces of New Zealand Art: Rita Angus, Gavin Hipkins, Michael Illingworth and Peter Peryer
The series features two major survey exhibitions: Rita Angus – ‘live to paint and paint to live’, which is the first survey of Angus’s work since 1982, and A Tourist in Paradise Lost – The Art of Michael Illingworth - the first ever survey of the...
Art Gallery of Ontario: Uniform: Robin Pacific - Collaboration with Protection Services Officers
Their collective desire to make the unique personalities and opinions of fellow PSOs both audible and visible at the AGO is realized in UNIFORM, a series of photographic, audio and video installations throughout the galleries. The PSOs are: ...
Tate Britain: In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida:
The name In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida is taken from the title track of an LP released in 1968 by the West Coast rock band, Iron Butterfly. The song was originally going to be called 'In the Garden of Eden'. Legend has it that the lead singer was so drunk wh...
City Gallery Wellington, 360-Michael Hirschfeld Gallery: Outdoor People: The Paintings and Prints of Juliet Peter
Now in her 80s, Juliet Peter has long been a fixture in the Wellington art scene. She and her artist husband Roy Cowan were central figures in the 1950s and 60s, inspiring many artists to do what was then considered nearly impossible – to make the...
Oliewenhuis Art Museum: Diane Victor, Maggie van Schalkwyk, Ian Marley, Gordon Froud, Angus Taylor and Louismarié Combrink: A Group Exhibition
Diane Victor, recent recipient of a medal of honour for excellence in drawing and painting from the Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns is an accomplished printmaker and a master of her genre. Her drawings are primarily in pastel and ch...
Shire Pottery Gallery and Studios: Enchanted Places: Four Leading Contemporary Scottish Painters
REINHARD BEHRENS RSW SSA "My drawings, etchings, paintings and installations contribute to an ever increasing Œbody of evidence‚ for the existence of the parallel world of ŒNaboland‚ in which normal limits of time and space are dissolved
BANG the gallery: Words of Art
His first show, Indirect Confessions, was staged at The Coffee Lounge in early 1998 and he was then granted a sponsorship to perform the same show at the Grahamstown Arts Festival the same year. Indirect Confessions was voted one of the top ten sh...
Hamburger Bahnhof Museum: Face Up - Contemporary Art from Australia
The exhibition features 36 painting, video/DVD, photography and sculpture works, including a number of new commissions realised on site at the museum. Schmitz says : 'The exhibition is part proposition, part declaration. Beyond proffering a genera...
Royal Academy of the Arts: APOCALYPSE - Beauty and horror in contemporary art
Apocalypse is a story of extremes. This exhibition is a contemporary, secular interpretation of the biblical story of St John the Divine which contains elements ranging from the horrors of genocide to the beauties of Utopia. These el...
Wellington City Gallery: The Magic of the Everyday - CAUGHT IN THIS SENSUAL MUSIC ALL: Works by Janet Paul
The paintings of figures in their lived-in environments bring out the magical in the everyday life. They show private moments with family and friends in relaxed surroundings, during holidays in the Coromandel or while at home in Wellington. Alongs...
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa: Signs and Wonders - He Tohu He Ohorere
Some of Te Papa’s greatest treasures are included: sacred images by European masters such as Dürer, Rembrandt, Cantarini, Blake, Rouault, Matisse, Masson, and Rosetti; and iconic works of art by major New Zealand artists such as Colin McCahon, Rit...
Te Papa: More of the National Art Collection Displayed at Te Papa
Past Presents showcases the range of art held in the national collection – everything from old favourites such as the well-known portrait of Mrs Humphrey Devereux by eighteenth-century American artist John Singleton Copley, through to the latest ...
Irish Museum of Modern Art: The Unblinking Eye: Lens-based Art from the Collection
The Unblinking Eye comprises approximately 40 works, and draws on a wide range of practices, all of which incorporate the camera to make artworks of great diversity and technique.  Works range from photoworks which document performances by artists...
Modern Museum: Projekt Philippe Parreno
In this work, and its specific context - cinema advertising - Parreno continues his investigation and questioning of different conditions of production and generalized forms of communication. Shot in a remote and seldom visited location a fj...
Biennale of Sydney 2002, International Festival of Contemporary Art: (The World May Be) Fantastic.
The 2002 exhibition invites you to view My Living Room is a Martian Base (Gilles Barbier, France), see Nixon in Chains (Jeffrey Vallance, USA), hear A Strange Message From Another Star (Veli Granö, Finland), experience the killing in the Muriel...
Irish Museum of Modern Art: Past Things and Present: Jasper Johns since 1983
Jasper Johns first came to public attention over 50 years ago, with his now-famous images of flags, numerals and impersonal household objects, or - as he described them - “things we already know”. Radically different from the prevailing Abstract E...
Harbourfront Cenrtre: Great Lakes: An Exhibition of Artists, Poets and Writers
Participating artists, poets and writers are Shelley Adler, Kemeny Babineau, Joe Blades, Jane Buyers, Scott Childs, Sharon Cook, Michael Davey, Beverley Daurio, Sheila Gregory, C. Herbert, Penn Kemp, Eugene Knapik, Malca Litovitz, Lorna Mills, Dav...
Govett-Brewster Art Gallery: Gridlock: Cities, Structures, Spaces
The exhibition continues themes examined in the Gallery’s recent exhibitions Bloom: mutation, toxicity, and the sublime 2004; Extended Play: art remixing music 2003; Feature: art, life and cinema 2001; and Drive: power, progress, desire 2000, said...
Kunsthalle Zurich: Sarah Lucas: 50 Works, 1900 to present
Her oeuvre, which embraces photography, collage, sculpture, installations and drawings, plays with social clichés, with linguistic and visual representations of sexuality and gender ascriptions. The show at Kunsthalle Zürich comprises some 50 wor...
Fraser Gallery: Photographs of Scotland
The mounted naked warrior looked behind him and examined his own smaller army, made up of both men and women tattooed in designs and symbols like the ones on his scarred body. His name was Bridei and he was the King of the Northern Picts, th...

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Rita Angus: Paint to Live and Live to Paint | City Gallery Wellington | Te Whare Toi
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