Not on display
- Artist
- Anthony Eyton born 1923
- Medium
- Oil paint on canvas
- Dimensions
- Support: 1514 × 1268 × 25 mm
frame: 1676 × 1435 × 85 mm - Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Purchased with assistance from the Charlotte Bonham Carter Charitable Trust 1996
- Reference
- T07125
Display caption
Eyton was born in London and from 1947 to 1950 studied at Camberwell School of Art where he later taught. Other teaching posts followed at the Royal Academy Schools and St Lawrence College, Ontario. In 1987 Eyton was elected Royal Academician.
In 1994 Eyton was one of a number artists invited by Tate to work in the interior of Bankside power station, now Tate Modern. This picture captures the enormous scale of the turbine hall. He wrote: ‘the machinery looked like modern sculpture and everywhere there were the colours of rust and blue paint’.
Gallery label, August 2004
Does this text contain inaccurate information or language that you feel we should improve or change? We would like to hear from you.
You might like
-
Craigie Horsfield Bankside Power Station, London. December 1994
2000 -
Sam Taylor-Johnson OBE Red
2000 -
Catherine Yass Bankside: Cherrypicker
2000 -
Carel Weight Clapham Junction
1978 -
Peter Greenham Life Class
1979 -
Anthony Eyton Open Window, Spitalfields
1976–81 -
Stephen McKenna An English Oak Tree
1981 -
Patrick Symons Oak Arch Grey (Wimbledon Common)
1977–81 -
Adrian Berg Gloucester Gate, Regent’s Park, May
1982 -
Leon Kossoff Booking Hall, Kilburn Underground
1987 -
John Lessore Diana and Actaeon at the Byam Shaw
1987 -
Anthony Eyton The Tank, Bankside Power Station
1995 -
Richard Cook Dozmary Pool
2005 -
Richard Cook Lelant, November 1998
1998 -
Gillian Carnegie Black Square
2008
