Cass | |
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Artist | Rita Angus |
Year | 1936 |
Medium | oil on canvas on board |
Subject | Cass, New Zealand |
Dimensions | 550 mm × 650 mm (22 in × 26 in) |
Location | Christchurch Art Gallery |
Accession | 69/74 |
Cass is an oil painting created by the New Zealand artist Rita Angus in 1936, depicting the railway station at the small mountain settlement of Cass in the Canterbury high country. It has been described as "one of the defining works of the 1930s and indeed of New Zealand art history," and was voted "New Zealand's greatest painting" in a 2006 television poll.