- Title:
- Garden: Elysian Grove
- Object name(s):
- WaterColourOrDrawings; Garden and houses, Aberystwyth
- Brief description:
- Garden and houses, Elysian Grove, Aberystwyth; middleground, garden with shrubs, a tree, a greenhouse, a shed and bean poles; background, hedges, houses and clothes on a washing line. Drawn with varied marks including some erased and scratched highlights
- Collection:
- Aberystwyth University, School of Art Museum & Gallery
- Acquisition date:
- 1996
- Acquisition method:
- Purchase
- Dimension:
- Width
- Dimension value:
- 254
- Dimension:
- Height
- Dimension value:
- 262
- Inscription content:
- (pencil, verso) The Firs, Aberystwyth, 18-22.5.92
- Material:
- Pencil on white wove paper
- Object name:
- WaterColourOrDrawings; Garden and houses, Aberystwyth
- Object number:
- WD694
- Object production date:
- 1992
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1992
- Date - latest:
- 1992
- Object production person:
- John Harvey
- Person's association:
- Artist/Maker
- Person's biographical note:
- Painter and art historian. Studied at Gwent College of Higher Education, 1977-81, and at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, 1982-84 and 1986-91, where he completed a PhD in Art History. He is currently Professor of Fine Art at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth where he served as Head of Department between 1995 and 2004. His art work examines Judaic and Protestant visual cultures and includes constructions, drawings and the systemic paintings of his 'Pictorial Bible', the latter being abstract visualisations of biblical texts. His published writings include 'The Art of Piety: The Visual Culture of Welsh Nonconformity',1995, and 'Image of the Invisible: The Visualisation of Religion in the Welsh Nonconformist Tradition', 1999
- Person's birth date:
- 1959
- Person's forenames:
- John
- Person's place of birth:
- UK, Wales, Monmouthshire, Nantyglo
- Person's surname:
- Harvey
- Object production place:
- UK, Wales, Aberystwyth
- Owner:
- The artist
- Organisation's association:
- Object source
- Responsible department/section:
- WaterColourOrDrawings
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Use licence for this record: CC BY-NC
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