Stewart, Barbara: Across the Park
£1,250.00
An attractive urban composition reminiscent of L.S.Lowry’s work but in no way an imitation of it. This oil painting on board is in excellent condition and is attractively framed. Although not signed to the front, Barbara Stewart has inscribed the painting with her name, address and the title of her work on the reverse.
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Artist: Barbara Stewart, born 1929
Title and date: Across the Park, 1960s/70s
Size: 58.0 x 83.0 cms.
Description
Artist description:
An artist born in York but living in Oadby, Leicestershire, she produced “semi-abstract interpretations of landscape and still life.” Although she studied art as part of her teacher training at Leeds College of Education, Stewart was “largely self-taught.” She became a primary school and special needs teacher. As well as being a member of the Royal Birmingham Society of Arts, Stewart was elected RWA in 1987 and PS in 1997, winning the Frank Herring Award in 1996; the Daler-Rowney Award in 1998 and gte Thompson’s Gallery Award in 1999. She also showed at the RA Summer Exhibition, Thompson’s Gallery, Workshop Wales, Fishguard and was included in The Autumn Show, The Wykeham Gallery, Stockbridge, in 2004.