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Telephone Engineer
Telephone Engineer
Telephone Engineer

Telephone Engineer

Artist (London, England, 1919 - 1999)
Date1950
Mediumoil on canvas
ClassificationsPaintings And Drawings
DimensionsOverall: Height: 79.2 cm, Width: 51 cm
Frame: Height: 92.2 cm, Width: 64.4 cm
glass size: 82.5 x 54.6 cm
AcquisitionPurchased in 1979 with assistance from the National Fund for Acquisitions.
Copyright© estate of Prunella Clough. All rights reserved, DACS
LocationView by Appointment - Aberdeen Treasure Hub
Object numberABDAG000187
About MePrunella Clough was best known for her semi-abstracted paintings of industrial subjects. These paintings had grown out of her interest in figurative painting although they also reveal her interest in French Cubism, which she shared with her fellow artists Michael Ayrton, Keith Vaughan, John Minton, Robert MacBryde and Robert Colquhoun.

Clough developed a very distinctive style - her colours were usually warm and tonal and her painting technique thickly textured. Her subjects were almost invariably mundane, as here, where she focuses on a telephone engineer.

A few years before she painted this work Clough explained her choice of subject matter: "Anything that the eye or the mind's eye sees with intensity and excitement will do for a start; a gasometer is a as good as a garden, probably better…..whatever the theme, it is the nature and structure of an object - and seeing it as if it were strange and unfamiliar, which is my chief concern."

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