Olive Whitehead Signed (Wife of Tom) Original Mid 20th Century Vintage Oil Painting Moorland Road in the Pennines English Landscape

Type of Artwork: Oil Painting

Surface: Paper attached to card

Artist and Signature: Signed OM Monogram of Tom Whitehead's wife, Olive. Olive's works are extremely rare to the market.

Artist Tom Whitehead married Annie Olive Towle (née Margison and known as Olive) who was a professional violinist. He had known Olive since she was a young teenager. The couple were married at Bradford Register Office on 16th December 1957. The Whiteheads were friends with local professional photographer Alice Longstaff and her husband John, and visited them at their home of Learings Farm, Heptonstall. Longstaff also held exhibitions and sold Whitehead’s works in her shop in Hebden Bridge.

The Whiteheads initially lived at 29 York Crescent, Halifax (the address on the back of this painting) but later moved to 19 Willowfield Road. Whitehead was a prolific painter and produced a vast body of work in his lifetime, and though many were sold from his numerous exhibitions, there were still enough in his possession to line the walls of his home. Whitehead died in May 1978, soon after a large exhibition at Bankfield Museum. There was a memorial exhibition hosted by Calderdale Museums after his death, which Olive attended.

Subject: Titled verso 'Moorland Road in the Pennines'

Approximate Age: Circa mid 20th Century

Framed or Mounted: Sold framed. The frame is free of charge.

Condition Report: Fair to good condition. The painting is loose in the centre areas against it's backing card. Please see the images provided for further condition analysis.

Size 33 x 28 cm (mount aperture approx. 26 x 16 cm)

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