Welsh Back

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Robert Henry Hurdle came to Bristol in 1950 to teach part-time at the West of England College of Art. 'Welsh Back' was his first Bristol painting. In London he had painted the canals and this painting continued the theme of painting water in an urban setting. It was painted from working drawings and frequent observations of this section of Bristol's Floating Harbour in morning light. The painting is subtly balanced in its colours and composition, and is both an accurate record and an abstraction of the the scene. Hurdle delighted in the contrasting and interlocking shapes, unified by the sweep of the calm, flat surface of the water.

Bristol Museum & Art Gallery

Bristol

Title

Welsh Back

Date

1950

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 54 x W 64 cm

Accession number

K5636

Acquisition method

purchased from the artist, 1993

Work type

Painting

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