Rita Angus Memorial Prints
$200.00
During my tenure in 1970, as Francis Hodgkins fellow at Otago University, Rita Angus died. I decided to take the central Otago landscape we both enjoyed & introduce it into the cruciform shape as a memorial to her.
I made many drawings and at an early stage decided to extend the idea into a series of 12, relating to the Catholic tradition of the Stations of the Cross.
Some of the earliest drawings were done on a newsprint pad, including in sequence the numbers 1 to 12.
Eventually I abandoned the inclusion of the numbers and completed a series of 12 oil paintings on hardboard cut as crosses.
Recently some of these earlier drawings returned to me for restoration in such bad shape I decided to photocopy them and turn the photocopies into screenprints on good paper.
Michael Smither CNZM 2014
Size 280 x 380
#1 Edition of 19
#2 Edition of 23
#3 Edition of 26
#5 Edition of 18
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