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Title:
Fishermen
Object name(s):
Prints; Five fishermen with a small catch in a fishing net
Brief description:
Five fishermen with net. Five standing men wearing flat caps, sweaters, waders and aprons. Four of the men hold a fishing net containing thirty fish (mackerel and scads). The other man holds a rope in his right hand. Background left unworked. Black drawing, with erased highlights, reproduced in half tone. Printed in black, yellow, silver and pale blue. Silver of fish and net is overprinted
Collection:
Aberystwyth University, School of Art Museum & Gallery
Acquisition date:
1994
Acquisition method:
Gift
Dimension:
Width
Dimension value:
510
Dimension:
Height
Dimension value:
350
Inscription content:
(pencil, lower left corner of print) 25/70, (pencil, lower right corner of print) Crawford [artist's signature]
Material:
Offset colour lithograph with half tone on Rivoli acid free paper
Object name:
Prints; Five fishermen with a small catch in a fishing net
Object number:
PR1915
Object production date:
1990
Date - earliest / single:
1990
Date - latest:
1990
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
Owner:
The artist
Organisation's association:
Object source
Responsible department/section:
Prints
Text:
Number 25 of an edition of 70. Printed by Andrew Baldwin at the School of Art, Llanbadarn Road, University of Wales, Aberystwyth. The figures are based on various sources including a 1920s photograph at Lowestoft by Harry and Ford Jenkins, a photograph of an Edwardian fisherman (far right) and the frowning head of the artist's grandfather (second from the right).The original drawing was made in 1987-8
Text reason:
Collections online text

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Use licence for this record: CC BY-NC

Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/5d65ff38-0af4-3955-b302-153975f37231, Aberystwyth University, School of Art Museum & Gallery, CC BY-NC

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