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This painting was purchased for Coventry College of Education from the 'Pictures for Schools' Exhibition. In post-war Britain, art education was held to be an important part of a child's development and schools and colleges were actively encouraged to collect original works of art so that children and students could explore the ways in which they had been made. In the late 1950s travel in Europe opened up to more people, beguiled by new travel writing and, indeed by the cookery books of Elizabeth David that introduced a sense of the Mediterranean to the United Kingdom. Here, Mary Fedden deploys reds and oranges in a non-naturalistic way to suggest the heat of Tuscany. She depicts a traditional way of life: one that would be of interest to tourists.
Title
Mules in Tuscany, Italy
Date
1956
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
H 45.7 x W 56.7 cm
Accession number
wu0364w
Acquisition method
purchased from the 'Pictures for Schools' exhibition, 1958
Work type
Painting
Inscription description
signed and dated
University of Warwick
Mead Gallery, University of Warwick, Coventry, West Midlands CV4 7AL England
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