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Creator:
Alan Lowndes, 1921–1978
Title:

From Mersey Bridge

Date:
1968
Medium:
Oil on masonite
Dimensions:
22 x 30 inches (55.9 x 76.2 cm), Frame: 27 3/4 x 37 3/4 inches (70.5 x 95.9 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:

Inscribed on verso in white chalk, top edge, towards left, over paper tape and board: "3" (circled); inscribed on verso in white chalk top edge, towards right, partially covered by paper tape: "AK" (circled); inscribed on verso in white chalk top edge, towards right, partially covered by paper label, white chalk: "15" (circled); on a paper label printed in blue and typewritten black ink, over paper tape and chalk inscription, top right corner, verso: "CHRISTOPHER HULL GALLERY | 17 Motcomb Street, London, SW1 | ALAN LOWNDES, 1920-1976 | From Mersey Bridge, 1968 | oil on board, 22” x 30” | FFA No 905 | Coll: Mrs Jack L Pritzker, 1984"; charcoal inscription in the center, verso: "FROM MERSEY BRIDGE (underlined) | 30 x 22 | Halsetown March 1968"; white chalk inscription, running along left edge from bottom to top, verso: "215 XE"; in black paint, stenciled, to the right: "215 XE"; chalk inscription, running top to bottom, right of center, verso: "23-5-75"; chalk inscription, running top to bottom, right of center: "151(2)".

Signed and dated in red paint, lower left: "Alan Lowndes 1968"

Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Libra Foundation, from the family of Nicholas and Susan Pritzker
Copyright Status:
© Estate of the Artist
Accession Number:
B2012.30.38
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
arches | bridge (built work) | buildings | cityscape | factories | signs
Access:
Not on view
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Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:63988
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Ian Collins, Modernism and memory : Rhoda Pritzker and the art of collecting, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2016, pp. 44. 46, 206, fig. 19, 206 fig., N6768 .M635 2016 OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]


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