Peter LanyonAnticoli Hills c.1953

This drawing was probably made on the spot in the Abruzzi mountains to the east of Rome. Though almost all Lanyon's work was made in his native Cornwall, three months in Italy stimulated an important body of work. In 1952 he had won an Italian government scholarship to study in Italy. He travelled to Rome in January 1953, but quickly left the city for the hill town of Anticoli Corrado, where he took a studio. Anticoli was an established artists colony which, though past its prime, still boasted several artists and a plentiful supply of studio space… (read more)