Flight

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Flight

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Collection

Te Papa Collections Online

Description

In the early 1960s, Rita Angus was horrified to hear that thousands of graves would be shifted from Wellington’s Bolton Street Cemetery to make way for a new urban motorway. Angus was keenly aware of her Anglo-Scottish heritage and New Zealand’s 19th-century history, and saw both reflected in the colonial cemetery. Angus visited the site regularly before and during the demolition, making careful records of specific headstones and inscriptions. A lifelong pacifist, she was drawn to a carved s...

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Image

Date created

1969

Creator

Rita Angus

URL

https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/43394

Related subjects

Tombs & sepulchral monuments / Cemeteries / Landscapes (Representations) / Boats / Birds / Wellington (New Zealand) / Thorndon (New Zealand) / oil paint / hardboard / paintings / Wellington

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