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Kenneth Rowntree (1915 - 1997)

Still-life with Grace Darling, 1949

SKU: 10104
Oil on canvas.
Presentation:
framed

Size:
Height – 40.6cm x Width – 55.9cm

DESCRIPTION

Provenance:
Given by the artist to John and Leslie Milner
Exhibitied:
Newtown, Powys, Oriel 31 Gallery, Touring Exhibition, 1992 

The title of this work comes from the carved figure of Grace Darling which appears in the composition. Darling was a Victorian lighthouse keeper who achieved national fame after saving a number of people from the shipwrecked Forfarshire, which ran aground on the Farne Islands in 1838. The sculpture is typical of those made after her image in the late nineteenth-century, and closely resembles a Belgian example in ivory and alabaster in the National Maritime Museum.

A pile of paint boxes appears to the side of this figure, including raw and burnt Sienna, as well as Naples yellow. So too an open book. All of these objects rest on top of a deconstructed easel, as the top clamp and struts can be seen on the far left of the picture.

The picture comes in a frame of the artist’s own design.

 

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THE ARTIST

Kenneth Rowntree
Kenneth
Rowntree
1915 - 1997

Painter, illustrator, artist in collage and murals, draughtsman and teacher, born in Scarborough, Yorkshire. He studied at the Ruskin School of Drawing, Oxford, under Albert Rutherston, 1934’35, and at the Slade under Randolph Schwabe. During World War II he participated in the Pilgrim Trust Recording Britain project and was an Official War Artist. He had his first one-man exhibition at Leicester Galleries in 1946; other one-man shows followed at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, Zwemmer Gallery, New Art Centre, and the Laing Art Gallery in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, with a retrospective at Hatton Gallery there in 1980. In 1949 he became a tutor at RCA, a post he held until 1958. In 1959 he became Professor of Fine Arts, University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, succeeding Lawrence Gowing; he held the position until 1980. In 1992 a touring retrospective was organinsed, starting in Newtown. Group shows included NEAC, AIA and RSW. He became a member of the Society of Mural Painters in 1943, taught mural painting at the Royal College of Art for 10 years from 1948, and received a Ford Foundation Grant to visit America in 1959. In 1948 he illustrated A Prospect of Wales. Murals completed include those for Barclay School, Stevenage, 1946, RMS Orsova and Iberia, 1954, and the British Pavilion at Brussels International Exhibition in 1958. In 1951 he painted murals for the Lion and Unicorn Pavilion at the Festival of Britain. Tate, Victoria & Albert Museum and WAC are among many public owners of his work. Rowntree’s pictures reflect the genial and witty nature of the artist, usually being landscapes and townscapes in which the elements have a toy-like neatness and familiar notations are employed. In the post-war years he also painted a considerable number of abstract (and semi-abstract) works. His work is sometimes signed with just his initials. He lived at Corbridge, Northumberland.

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