Anna Margaret Frances Caselberg (née Woollaston, 1942–2004) was a New Zealand painter. Born in 1942, Caselberg was the daughter of Edith Winifred Woollaston (née Alexander) and the painter

Toss Woollaston Sir Mountford Tosswill "Toss" Woollaston (11 April 1910 – 30 August 1998) was a New Zealand artist. He is regarded as one of the most important New Zealand painters of the 20th century. Life Born in Toko, Taranaki in 1910, Woollaston attended ...

. She studied at the

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, spending a year living with

Colin McCahon Colin John McCahon (; 1August 191927May 1987) was a prominent New Zealand artist whose work over 45 years consisted of various styles, including landscape, figuration, abstraction, and the overlay of painted text. Along with Toss Woollaston and ...

and his family during this time. In 1960 she married poet John Caselberg, who—12 years older than her—was friends with both her father and McCahon. Anna Caselberg worked in oils and watercolour, mostly painting landscapes, and her style is said to show the influences of Colin McCahon and her father. She exhibited with The Group in 1975. Her work is held in public collections in New Zealand, including those of the

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, Suter Art Gallery,

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, and the Dunedin Public Art Gallery. Caselberg died of cancer in late 2004, six months after her husband's death, also from cancer. The

Caselberg Trust The Caselberg Trust is a charitable trust in New Zealand, named in honour of Anna and John Caselberg. It was established in 2006 to purchase the Caselberg's house in Broad Bay on the Otago Peninsula in the South Island of New Zealand. The house ...

, a charitable trust supporting artists, writers and composers by providing residencies at the Caselbergs' former house at Broad Bay on Otago Peninsula, is named in honour of John and Anna Caselberg.

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