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Oxford Art Online
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Oxford Art Online has recently added a large amount of New Zealand content.
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Oxford Art Online is an amalgam of several classic art reference books and encyclopedias combined into one searchable database. It includes the Grove Dictionary of Art and every art librarian's favourite: Bénézit's Dictionary of Artists.
To celebrate the addition of New Zealand entries, an old favourite from our collection has been placed on Oxford Art Online's start page, exposing it to thousands of art historians, researchers, students, curators and writers.
This vast body of reliable, scholarly information is not, predictably enough, available free of charge. However our good friends at Christchurch City Libraries have a subscription and all you need to use Oxford Art Online is a library card and a PIN – and they won't cost you a cent.
If you don't live in Christchurch, ask your own public, school, college or university library about Oxford Art Online: chances are they will also have a subscription.
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Rita Angus Cass
In the autumn of 1936, Rita Angus, with artist friends Louise Henderson and Julia Scarvell, took a ten-day sketching trip to Cass – a remote outpost on the Midland Line to Te Tai Poutini / the West Coast. Angus completed several works in oil and watercolour in the following months, all showing her attentiveness to human presence in the sweeping landscape. Built structure and material in Cass, her best-known work, includes railway sheds, a stationary wagon, telegraph poles and stacked up timber opposite a solitary waiting passenger. Other finished works from this visit featured a derelict musterers’ hut, and the Canterbury College Mountain Biological Station with a passing steam engine.
(From Here on the Ground, 18 May – 17 November 2024)