Stormy Desk

Location

Country: Australia
City: Canberra
Place: High Commission

Born in London, Anthony Rossiter showed early artistic talent at school. While serving with the Welsh Guards in Greece he suffered from a breakdown and thrombosis, which left him temporarily unable to walk. Invalided out of the Army, he attended Chelsea Polytechnic (1947–51) and later taught art in schools and at Bristol Polytechnic (1960–83). His autobiography, ‘The Pendulum’ (1966) won him an Arts Council Award for creative prose. His first solo show in London (1970) coincided with the publication of ‘The Golden Chain’, winning a second Arts Council award. Elected RWA in 1984, Rossiter’s works are in public collections including the Victoria & Albert Museum, the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, and the Smithsonian Institution, Washington.

Places

England, Cornwall

Subjects

paper (as Subject), landscape C20th, grass, storm, road, telegraph pole, house, domestic interior, desk

Materials & Techniques

canvas, oil, oil painting

Artist

Anthony Rossiter (1926 - 2000)

Title

Stormy Desk

Date

1961

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

height: 114.80 cm, width: 62.50 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from Leicester Galleries, June 1961

Inscription

verso: Initialled and dated

Provenance

Consigned by the artist to Leicester Galleries, London; from whom purchased by the Ministry of Works in July 1961, as ‘Stormy Seas, Cornwall’

GAC number

5530