Approaching Rain, St Martin Black & White the only frame we had

the only frame we had handy is this remarkable museum quality gesso and gold affair so now it’s even bigger

Champagne gold and Caplain gold in 640gsm watercolour paper

A proponent both as a critic and painter of the American realist school he must have enjoyed the irony of winning second prize to Picasso’s first at the Carnegie Institute’s International Exhibition of Modern Painting in 1930

a Malvern based artist he presumably became friendly with Thesiger through his association with the Malvern Literary Festival

In fact he documented over sixteen hundred such designs

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