Switch line to the Bapaume Road

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Government Art Collection

Born in Tynemouth, Northumberland, Ernest Procter studied in Newlyn, then at Atelier Colarossi (Paris, 1910–11). In 1912 he met and married artist, Dod Procter, with whom he exhibited at the Fine Art Society (1913). He served in the First World War, but in 1916 he exhibited with the International Society. In the 1920s, the Procters collaborated on projects and exhibited together in London, Manchester and Northampton. Ernest became a member of the New English Art Club (1929) and Associate of the Royal Academy (1932). He was Head of Design/Craft at Glasgow School of Art (1934). His last joint show with his wife was in London in 1935, before his death that October. Memorial exhibitions were held in London and Newcastle in 1936.

Places

France, Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais

Subjects

railway, topography, WW1 art, landscape C20th, tree, flood, World War I, bridge (rural), canal

Materials & Techniques

paper (as artists material), watercolour (as artists materials), charcoal, watercolour (as object name)

Artist

Ernest Procter (1886 - 1935)

Title

Switch line to the Bapaume Road

Date

c.1915-1917

Medium

Watercolour and charcoal on paper

Dimensions

height: 20.00 cm, width: 29.50 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from Blond Fine Art, November 1980

Inscription

bl: Ernest Proctor ; verso on hand-written label: "Albert / Switch line to the Bapaume Rd. / Showing the Broken Bridge in the floods / due to the smashing of the Canal Banks."

GAC number

15125