Canterbury College School of Art Elam School of Fine Arts Chelsea School of Art
Known for
Oil and watercolour painting
Spouse
Alfred Cook
(m. 1930; div. 1939)
Website
www.ritaangus.com
Rita Angus (12 March 1908 – 25 January 1970), known as Rita Cook early in her career, was a New Zealand painter who, alongside Colin McCahon and Toss Woollaston, is regarded as one of the leading figures in twentieth-century New Zealand art. She worked primarily in oil and watercolour, and became known for her portraits and landscapes.[1]
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Trevelyan, Jill (2000). "Angus, Rita". Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand. Retrieved 9 September 2010.
RitaAngus (12 March 1908 – 25 January 1970), known as Rita Cook early in her career, was a New Zealand painter who, alongside Colin McCahon and Toss...
The RitaAngus Residency in Wellington, New Zealand, is an opportunity for artists to live in the former home of RitaAngus, one of New Zealand’s best-known...
supporter and patron of many famous artists, including New Zealand artists RitaAngus and Theo Schoon, and the American artist Lowell Nesbitt, whom he provided...
part-time, and 186 (3.4%) were unemployed. RitaAngus, artist While living in Wellington in the 1960s, RitaAngus painted a number of scenes in Island Bay...
abstraction, and the overlay of painted text. Along with Toss Woollaston and RitaAngus, McCahon is credited with introducing modernism to New Zealand in the...
hospital, was the first Christchurch champions of the Chatham Cup in 1926. RitaAngus (1950), artist Janet Frame, writer. Frame described some of her experiences...
ISBN 9780987668844 RitaAngus: an artist's life, Wellington: Te Papa Press, 2008. ISBN 9781877385391 Jill Trevelyan and William McAloon, RitaAngus: life & vision...
Hood, bassist in 5 Seconds of Summer John Logan Campbell, politician RitaAngus, painter Many of the prime ministers of New Zealand have been of Scottish...
research papers from his master's thesis on New Zealand realist painter RitaAngus became part of Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki's archives. Brownson...
v t e The Group The Group artists Chrystabel Aitken Gladys Anderson RitaAngus Ria Bancroft Nola Barron Leo Bensemann Phyllis Bethune Vivien Bishop Olivia...
and lesbian identity development Cass (painting), a 1936 painting by RitaAngus Search for "cass" on Wikipedia. All pages with titles beginning with Cass...
the artist RitaAngus, accompanied by painters Louise Henderson and Julia Scarvell, visited Cass. Angus, then going by her married name Rita Cook, made...
Baigent moved into a flat at 97 Cambridge Terrace where artist RitaAngus was living. On Angus's nomination he joined The Group in 1938. Seven of the nine...
contact with artists whose work he approved of and influenced including RitaAngus – for whom he was one of the main sources of her interest in Buddhist...
pages in length. Artists featured in The Mirror and the Palette include RitaAngus, Artemisia Gentileschi, Nora Heysen, Angelica Kauffman, Frida Kahlo, Alice...
became friends with other artists such as Allen Curnow, Denis Glover, RitaAngus, and Alistair Campbell. In 1947, Lilburn moved to Wellington to take up...
Death of I. Rice Pereira 1970 in art – Birth of Jenny Saville; Death of RitaAngus, Mark Rothko, Fritz Ascher, Eva Hesse, Roberto Longhi, Barnett Newman...
artists has been the creation of a distinctly New Zealand artistic style. RitaAngus and others used the landscape to try to achieve this while painters such...
best-known artists came from or live in Palmerston North. The list includes RitaAngus, John Bevan Ford, Shane Cotton, Paul Dibble, Pat Hanly, Brent Harris,...
attempted to create a distinctive New Zealand style of art. Many, such as RitaAngus, continued to work on landscapes, with attempts made to depict New Zealand's...
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