Track through Willis’s Wood II

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Government Art Collection

Laurence Gowing was born in London and studied at the Euston School under William Coldstream. He held his first solo show at the Leicester Galleries in 1948. He was active as painter, a writer, a teacher and an adviser to the nation on the arts. From 1948-58 he was Professor of Fine Art at the University of Durham. He was Keeper of the British Collection and Deputy Director of the Tate Gallery from 1965-67 following a period as principal of Chelsea School of Art. From 1967-75 he was Professor of Fine Art at Leeds University, and from 1975 was Slade Professor of Fine Art at University College, London. Gowing was awarded a CBE in 1953 and a Knighthood in 1982, the year before a major touring Arts Council retrospective of his work.

Places

Subjects

topography, landscape C20th, tree, sunlight, forest, woodland, path

Materials & Techniques

canvas, oil, oil painting

Artist

Sir Lawrence Burnett Gowing (1918 - 1991)

Title

Track through Willis’s Wood II

Date

1961

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

height: 63.50 cm, width: 76.00 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from Marlborough Fine Art, January 1965

Inscription

none

GAC number

6842