© The artist's estate
Chiswick Reach I
William Townsend
- Art Funded
- 2006
- Dimensions
- 71.3 x 91.6 cm
- Vendor
- James Hyman Fine Art Ltd
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.
Provenance
Estate of the artist; James Hyman Fine Art.