Thames Estuary

Location

Country: Finland
City: Helsinki
Place: British Embassy

Roland Vivian Pitchforth was born in Wakefield, Yorkshire and studied there and in Leeds up to 1915. After the First World War, he returned to Leeds, then won a scholarship to the Royal College of Art (RCA, 1921–1925). Until 1939 he taught at Camberwell and Clapham Schools of Art and the RCA. He joined the London Artists' Association and the London Group in the late 1920s. As an Official War Artist in the Second World War, Pitchforth worked for the Ministry of Information and Home Security, drawing RAF activities, boat yards, factories, control rooms and tanks. He witnessed the Burma campaign in the Far East in 1945, then briefly lived in South Africa. On his return, he taught art and became a Royal Academician (1953).

Places

England, Essex, Kent, River Thames

Subjects

rowing boat, topography, seascape/coastal scene, river, estuary, sailboat

Materials & Techniques

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

Artist

Roland Vivian Pitchforth (1895 - 1982)

Title

Thames Estuary

Date

Medium

Watercolour on paper

Dimensions

height: 51.00 cm, width: 72.50 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from Leicester Galleries, June 1954

Inscription

br: Pitchforth

Provenance

Consigned by the artist to Leicester Galleries, London; from whom purchased by the Ministry of Works in May 1954

GAC number

2725