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Artist
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Angus, Rita (New Zealander, b.1908, d.1970)
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Role
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Artist
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Title
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Cass
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Label
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In May 1936 Rita Angus and fellow artists Louise Henderson and Julia Scarvell travelled by train from Christchurch to Cass for a ten day sketching trip. It was from this trip that Angus produced ‘Cass’, one of her most accomplished and celebrated paintings. By this time Angus was developing a style of realism incorporating clearly defined shapes and blocks of strong colour. Her works from this period evoke the Canterbury high country on a fine clear day, when the landscape becomes highly defined and leaves one feeling they can see forever. Angus draws our attention to built structures by placing them prominently in the centre of the composition; human interaction with the environment is enhanced further with the inclusion of introduced exotic pine trees, which are shown claiming the landscape as their own. In a similar way Louise Henderson’s painting ‘Plain and hills’, the result of the same trip, depicts pine trees scattered throughout the Cass landscape.
(Brought to light, November 2009)
You can listen to an audio tour about this work:
http://www.christchurchartgallery.org.nz/OnDemand/Audio/Collection/Works/?ID=69_74
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Copyright credit line
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Reproduced courtesy of the Rita Angus estate
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Credit Line
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Purchased, 1955
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Media
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Oil on canvas on board
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Accession Number
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69/74
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Date made
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1936
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Current Location
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Dame Louise Henderson Gallery
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Infosheet
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There is an Infosheet for this work:
http://www.christchurchartgallery.org.nz/Collection/Infosheets/69_74.pdf
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