Not on display
- Artist
- John Armstrong 1893–1973
- Medium
- Oil paint on canvas
- Dimensions
- Support: 711 x 914 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Presented by the Trustees of the Chantrey Bequest 1968
- Reference
- T01061
Catalogue entry
John Armstrong b. 1893
T01061 TOCSIN III 1967
Inscribed ‘John Armstrong 67’ b.r. and, on the stretcher, ‘JOHN ARMSTRONG TOCSIN III’
Canvas, 28×36 (71×91·5)
Chantrey Purchase from the artist 1968.
Exh:
R.A., 1968 (2).
The artist wrote (10 April 1969): ‘There are so far five paintings in the Tocsin series...in all of these a solid object, i.e. the warning bell, is represented as thrusting through a facade.’
Another of the series is in the collection of the Arts Council.
Published in:
The Tate Gallery: Acquisitions 1968-9, London 1969
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