Ernest Greenwood 1940s oil painting
1940s still life at a window oil painting by Ernest Greenwood PRWS (1913-2009). Signed and dated '48.
Soft greens and yellows with a view of a garden through a window.
Framed with some wear/damage at the corners of the frame. The painting is in overall good condition but does have one small area that has worn through, one small slit and one small area of paint loss. Overall framed size is 54.5cm x 69.5cm.
Though the painter and printmaker, Ernest Greenwood, first established himself with portraits and figure subjects, including murals, he became better known for his gentle Neo-Romantic landscapes.
Greenwood was educated at Gravesend Grammar School and, from 1927, studied at Gravesend School of Art. In 1931, he won a scholarship to the Royal College of Art, in London, where he studied painting under William Rothenstein, John Nash, Alan Sorrell and Gilbert Spencer.
Had a first solo show in 1947 at Kensington Art Gallery, about a dozen following by retirement. During this he travelled extensively, for a decade as a specialist art lecturer with Swan’s Hellenic Voyages. Showed with RA and RI and was elected a member of RWS in 1973, being president for eight years from 1976 during which time the Society re-established itself at Bankside. Had a retrospective at New Metropole Arts Centre, Folkestone, 1972, another at County Hall, Maidstone, 1997. Tate Gallery and several provincial galleries hold his work.
1940s still life at a window oil painting by Ernest Greenwood PRWS (1913-2009). Signed and dated '48.
Soft greens and yellows with a view of a garden through a window.
Framed with some wear/damage at the corners of the frame. The painting is in overall good condition but does have one small area that has worn through, one small slit and one small area of paint loss. Overall framed size is 54.5cm x 69.5cm.
Though the painter and printmaker, Ernest Greenwood, first established himself with portraits and figure subjects, including murals, he became better known for his gentle Neo-Romantic landscapes.
Greenwood was educated at Gravesend Grammar School and, from 1927, studied at Gravesend School of Art. In 1931, he won a scholarship to the Royal College of Art, in London, where he studied painting under William Rothenstein, John Nash, Alan Sorrell and Gilbert Spencer.
Had a first solo show in 1947 at Kensington Art Gallery, about a dozen following by retirement. During this he travelled extensively, for a decade as a specialist art lecturer with Swan’s Hellenic Voyages. Showed with RA and RI and was elected a member of RWS in 1973, being president for eight years from 1976 during which time the Society re-established itself at Bankside. Had a retrospective at New Metropole Arts Centre, Folkestone, 1972, another at County Hall, Maidstone, 1997. Tate Gallery and several provincial galleries hold his work.
1940s still life at a window oil painting by Ernest Greenwood PRWS (1913-2009). Signed and dated '48.
Soft greens and yellows with a view of a garden through a window.
Framed with some wear/damage at the corners of the frame. The painting is in overall good condition but does have one small area that has worn through, one small slit and one small area of paint loss. Overall framed size is 54.5cm x 69.5cm.
Though the painter and printmaker, Ernest Greenwood, first established himself with portraits and figure subjects, including murals, he became better known for his gentle Neo-Romantic landscapes.
Greenwood was educated at Gravesend Grammar School and, from 1927, studied at Gravesend School of Art. In 1931, he won a scholarship to the Royal College of Art, in London, where he studied painting under William Rothenstein, John Nash, Alan Sorrell and Gilbert Spencer.
Had a first solo show in 1947 at Kensington Art Gallery, about a dozen following by retirement. During this he travelled extensively, for a decade as a specialist art lecturer with Swan’s Hellenic Voyages. Showed with RA and RI and was elected a member of RWS in 1973, being president for eight years from 1976 during which time the Society re-established itself at Bankside. Had a retrospective at New Metropole Arts Centre, Folkestone, 1972, another at County Hall, Maidstone, 1997. Tate Gallery and several provincial galleries hold his work.