Douglas MacDiarmid in Rita Angus’ ‘Figure Allegory’
Rita Angus, Figure Allegory, about 1945, oil on canvas. On loan from the Rita Angus Estate. © Estate of Rita Angus. Te Papa
Rita Angus: Artist
Rita Angus produced a remarkable body of drawings, watercolours, and paintings. A committed feminist, and a pacifist, Angus’ work was deeply entwined with her view of the world. In her portraits and landscape paintings, with their distinctive clear colours and flat, graphic style, she created a unique image of 20th-century Aotearoa.
Audio and video about New Zealand painter Rita Angus
The life, work, and relationships of Rita Angus.
Rita Angus: New Zealand Modernist
Rita Angus created a distinctive vision of a new, modern New Zealand. This landmark exhibition celebrates 40 years of her work.
Closed
18 Dec 2021 – 25 Apr 2022
Exhibition Ngā whakaaturanga
Audio descriptions for Rita Angus New Zealand Modernist
This audio descriptive introduction to Rita Angus: New Zealand Modernist, introduces the immersive first gallery and provides audio descriptions for a selection of paintings in this exhibition.
Touring exhbition: Rita Angus: New Zealand Modernist
Rita Angus created a distinctive vision of a new, modern New Zealand. This exhibition brings together a rich collection of 20 of her oil paintings.
Audio descriptions for Rita Angus New Zealand Modernist on tour
This page provides audio descriptions for a selection of paintings in the touring exhibition of Rita Angus: New Zealand Modernist.
Rita Angus: An Artist’s Life
Rita Angus: An Artist's Life is the first biography of this significant and much-loved New Zealand artist
Rita Angus: Life & Vision (exhibition catalogue)
Rita Angus: Life & Vision is the accompanying catalogue to the Te Papa exhibition and which marks the centenary of Rita Angus’s birth.
A Painter’s Journey: Rita Angus’s Central Otago
This film celebrates Rita Angus’s artistic practice – diving into her painting Central Otago (1953–56/1969).
Immersive stories: Rita Angus paintings on Google Arts and Culture
Immerse yourself in ten stories about Rita Angus and some of her paintings from our collection on Google Arts and Culture. Learn about her life and thoughts while she was painting in locations around Aotearoa New Zealand.
Jill Trevelyan: biography and 10 questions about Rita Angus
Jill Trevelyan, the author of Rita Angus: An Artist's Life, discusses her new book with Te Papa Press
Lizzie Bisley: biography and 10 questions about Rita Angus
Lizzie Bisley, the author of Rita Angus: New Zealand Modernist | Ringatoi Hou o Aotearoa, discusses her new book with Te Papa Press.
Watch: Rita by Quentin Angus
Quentin Angus is a composer based in New York, and the great-nephew of celebrated painter Rita Angus. Watch and listen to a performance of Quentin’s composition, Rita, inspired by the artist’s life, values, and her outstanding and diverse body of work.
Rita Angus: An Artist’s Life
Revised edition of the award-winning biography of one of New Zealand's most famous women artists.
Stories in the paint: the making of Rutu
Rita Angus’s painting, Rutu, is one of Aotearoa New Zealand’s most iconic portraits. Here, Conservator Paintings Linda Waters reveals some of the hidden histories she learned while preparing Rutu for exhibition.