Rita Angus Boats, Island Bay Print

In Boats, Island Bay, 1968, fishing launches, dinghies and small yachts bob and swing on their moorings, their angles adding liveliness against the deep expanse of blue. The work is representative of the late phase of Rita Angus’ painting, a time when her impressions of the New Zealand landscape and Wellington took on an increasingly visionary, surreal quality. Fellow artist Betty Curnow recalled Angus’ fondness for Wellington’s south coast: ‘She loved Island Bay and during some of my visits we went there for the day to watch the Italian fishing boats, the children, look at the lobsterpots’.

Boats, Island Bay sees Angus transform her everyday experiences and impressions into a startlingly vivid painting of toy-like boats on a bath of brilliant sea. 

Boats, Island Bay 1968 
courtesy of the Greg J Moyle Foundation

19.5 x 16.5cm (image only)
31 x 31 x 0.1cm (including white matting)
made in New Zealand

Unframed prints can be shipped both nationally and internationally, framed prints are only available to be shipped within Aotearoa, New Zealand.