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James Tower 1919 - 1988. English. Still Life Of Flowers In A Jug And A Bowl Of Apples, 1944. Framed Wartime Watercolour Painting.

£2,795    $3,512    €3,360
James Tower.
 
English ( b.1919 - d.1988 ).
 
Still Life Of Flowers In A Jug And A Bowl Of Apples, 1944.
 
Watercolour & Ink.
 
Signed & Dated Upper Right.
 
Image size 11.4 inches x 13.2 inches ( 29cm x 33.5cm ).
 
Frame size 18.1 inches x 19.7 inches ( 46cm x 50cm ).
 
Available for sale from Big Sky Fine Art in the English county of Dorset, this original wartime painting is by the English ceramic artist James Tower and is dated 1944.
 
The watercolour is presented and supplied in a sympathetic contemporary frame (which is shown in these photographs), mounted using new conservation materials and behind non-reflective Artglass AR 70™glass.
 
This vintage painting is in good condition, commensurate with its age. The painting is now preserved for future adoration and is ready to hang and to be appreciated.
 
The watercolour is signed and dated upper right.
 
One of Britain’s most important 20th-century ceramic artists; a quintessentially English sculptor, painter and teacher who was dedicated to his craft.
 
James Tower was born on the Isle of Sheppey in Kent, and brought up in a landscape of tidal estuaries, reeds, fish, shells and patterns of water on sand that greatly influenced his later work. He had a childhood accident that blinded him in one eye.
 
He left home at 17 and decided to travel the world, eventually making his way to the South Seas. On his return, he studied painting at the Royal Academy, (1938-40), and his talent was recognised when he won the Gold Medal for Painting in 1939.
 
During the Second World War he enrolled for service and spent the war working in camouflage and mapping at the Polish Ministry of Information. He married fellow student Maureen McManus in 1944. After the war he returned to art, enrolling at the Slade School of Art in 1946. Here he attended Dora Billington’s classes and became fascinated with ceramics. After he graduated, he took further classes in the medium at the London Institute under the British pott...
Antique #SA1111836, shown on this page, originates from 1940. For historical context, the timeline below highlights the period when it was made:
1940
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