Art Funded
Chiswick Reach I
© The artist's estate
William Townsend (1909 - 1973)
Cuming Museum
1948
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.
- Medium: oil on canvas
- Dimensions: 71.3 x 91.6cm
- Art Fund Grant: £5500 ( Total: £12,500)
- ArtFunded in: 2006
- Vendor: James Hyman Fine Art Ltd
Provenance
Estate of the artist; James Hyman Fine Art.
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