© The artist's estate
Chiswick Reach I
Artist: William Townsend (1909 - 1973)
Location: Cuming Museum
Date: 1948
Materials: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 73.1 x 91.6cm
Grant:
Amount Paid: £5,500 (Total: £12,500)
Vendor: James Hyman Fine Art Ltd
Review number: 5746 (2006)
Provenance:
Estate of the artist; James Hyman Fine Art.
Description:
Sunset view of the river Thames by a member of the Euston Road school. One of the artist's post-war London landscapes. The capturing of light at the moment between dusk and darkness echoes Whistler and others but has a gritty realism that offered a new perception of urban landscape. The composition has a strong spatial tension, balancing the mass of water against the press of the industrial fringe, the pontoon, barges and tug.
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