An artwork by Robin White (1946-) owned by Te Papa since 1994: website, and their description : "This is an oil painting on canvas ... completed in 1973. In the foreground is a flat-deck truck with the word 'Mangaweka' on the driver's door, and behind it a yellow, two-storey weatherboard building with four windows (two up and two down) and a red awning. The strong horizontals and verticals are counterbalanced by the wheels of the truck and rolling hills behind the building. The painting measures 100.5 cm x 100.5 cm."
The building, minus the awning, is still there, see the Google Streetview. The truck style is mid 1930s.
Mangaweka is a small town (not much more than a big village) on the North Island Main Trunk and SH1, although trains don't stop here any more. It is probably best known to motorists for the Mangaweka International Airport Café inside a preserved DC-3 painted in Cookie Time colours next to the service station on SH1.
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