Warrant Officer Class 2 Max Rupert Angus

V281550 Warrant Officer Class 2 Max Rupert Angus AM, FRSA, was an Australian painter, best known for his watercolour paintings of Tasmanian landscapes. Born in Hobart, Tasmania in 1914, he enlisted in the Australian Army in 1942. During the war, he worked as the head of the map drafting room in the intelleigence department and was promoted to warrant officer II. Angus was discharged in 1945, where he returned to Hobart.

Angus was made a Member of the Order of Australia on Australia Day in 1978. In 1987 he was appointed as a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts (FRSA) but it was not until 2006 that Angus had his first ever solo exhibition at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery. He was the inaugural winner of the 1988 Hobart City Art Prize, a finalist in the Wynne Prize for landscape in the years 1962 to 1967, and a finalist of the Archibald Prize in 1974. In 2015 Angus exhibited with Patricia Giles, making him Australia's oldest exhibiting artist at that time.

Angus died on 21 February 2017, aged 102.