Children Reading Comics

© Peter Blake. All rights reserved, DACS 2024. Image credit: Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery

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This painting is based on a snapshot of the artist and his sister, Shirley, reading 'The Eagle' comic. Shirley has had first choice of the coloured front and back pages with their exciting strip cartoons which are clearly legible; Peter is having to make do with the inside pages. This is Blake's first pop art painting. He uses the products of popular culture, in this case 'The Eagle', as a focus of his art.

Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery

Carlisle

Title

Children Reading Comics

Date

1954

Medium

oil on hardboard

Measurements

H 36.7 x W 47.1 cm

Accession number

1956.56.3

Acquisition method

purchased, 1956

Work type

Painting

Inscription description

P. BLAKE

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