Sir David Low

London’s New Traffic Problem

1925

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In Tate Britain

Prints and Drawings Room

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Artist
Sir David Low 1891–1963
Medium
Ink on paper
Dimensions
Support: 273 x 279 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Bequeathed by J.R. Holliday 1927
Reference
N04331

Catalogue entry

N04331 LONDON'S NEW TRAFFIC PROBLEM 1925
 
Inscr. ‘Low’ t.r. and with title b.c.
Indian ink, 10 3/4×11 (27·5×28).
Bequeathed by J. R. Holliday 1927.

Published in the Star, 7 December 1925. The reference is to the hard winter of 1925–6 when the White Stone Pond at Hampstead was frozen hard and covered with skaters (letter from the artist, 6 February 1956).

Published in:
Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, London 1964, I

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