Suffolk River

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During the 1950s, many artists started to examine scenes of daily life, usually painted in what is termed a 'restricted palette', in other words using relatively few colours. The colours here: white, brown, grey, yellow and blue, evoke the coastal environment. The artist has used the grey paint across the images of the boats and the land and taken it into the upper half of the painting where it is part sea, part sky. The work is divided by strong horizontal and vertical lines. This is very much a work about composition and painting, about generating a sense of atmosphere rather than the photographic capture of a moment in time.

University of Warwick

Coventry

Title

Suffolk River

Date

1950s (?)

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 40.8 x W 52.9 cm

Accession number

wu0384w

Acquisition method

purchased from the artist, 1975

Work type

Painting

Inscription description

signed

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Mead Gallery, University of Warwick, Coventry, West Midlands CV4 7AL England

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