Henrietta Catherine Angus was born in 1908. She attended Palmerston North Girls' High School after her family relocated there in 1921. She started attending the Canterbury College School of Art in 1927. She never finished her fine arts diploma but kept going back to school until 1933, taking classes at Auckland's Elam School of Fine Arts. She was exposed to Renaissance and Medieval art during her studies and got conventional instruction in life drawing, still life, and landscape painting. Angus spent the majority of the 1930s and 1940s in Christchurch. After her divorce, she took on a variety of tasks, including teaching and working as an illustrator for the press, due to her precarious financial situation. Angus avoided doing any type of military job during the 1940s, which reflects her pacifist convictions. "As an artist, it is my work to create life, not to destroy it," Angus once said. The most well-known of her three goddess creations, "Rutu," is a symbol of peace. She was diagnosed with a mental disorder in the late 1940s and checked herself into Sunnyside Mental Hospital in 1949. She relocated to Waikanae in 1950 to recover before settling in Wellington in 1955. Angus' health began to rapidly decline in December 1969, and she passed away at age 61.
Dimensions: 640 x 893H mm 
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