- Object name(s):
- Oil Paintings; Abstact landscape
- Brief description:
- Abstact landscape. Landscape with gentle rolling hills in the foreground interspersed with vertical posts? Mountain skyline near upper margin. Drawn on chipboard, much of which shows through, in pencil and grey, red, white and green oil pastel? Chipboard has been scored and filed to integrate it with the painting. Irregular margins
- Collection:
- Aberystwyth University, School of Art Museum & Gallery
- Dimension:
- Width
- Dimension value:
- 300
- Dimension:
- Height
- Dimension value:
- 400
- Inscription content:
- (pencil, lower right) crawford [artist\'s signature] 77
- Material:
- Mixed media (pencil and oil pastel?) on chipboard, framed
- Object name:
- Oil Paintings; Abstact landscape
- Object number:
- OP158
- Object production date:
- 1977
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1977
- Date - latest:
- 1977
- Object production person:
- Alistair Crawford
- Person's association:
- Artist/Maker
- Person's biographical note:
- Painter, printmaker, photographer, writer and performance artist. Studied textiles at Glasgow School of Art, 1962-66. Taught Textiles at the University of Leeds, 1968-71, and Graphic Design at Coventry Polytechnic, 1971-73, before teaching at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, 1974-2001, where he acted as Head of Department, 1986-95, and was awarded a Professorship in 1990. He has also worked as an Archive Research Fellow at the British School at Rome. Crawford has exhibited with the 56 Group Wales and in 1985 he won the Gold Medal at the National Eisteddfod. His written research includes monographs on the photographers Mario Giacomelli and Erich Lessing. His practical work - photography, etchings and paintings - is generally inspired by architecture, places and people
- Person's birth date:
- 1945
- Person's forenames:
- Alistair
- Person's place of birth:
- UK, Scotland, Fraserburgh
- Person's surname:
- Crawford
- Object production place:
- UK, Wales, Aberystwyth
- Responsible department/section:
- Oil Paintings
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Use licence for this record: CC BY-NC
Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/d1216dbe-ff3e-380e-a8af-33f51be197a8, Aberystwyth University, School of Art Museum & Gallery, CC BY-NC
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