On loan
National Art Museum of China (Beijing, China): British Landscape
- Artist
- John Minton 1917–1957
- Medium
- Oil paint on canvas
- Dimensions
- Support: 457 x 610 mm
frame: 591 x 747 x 65 mm - Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Purchased 1957
- Reference
- T00162
Display caption
Minton’s melancholy paintings of London during and shortly after the Second World War often include displaced people and the bombed out shells of buildings. A pile of rubble fills the foreground of this picture of a deserted London street. Whether it is the wreckage of a bomb, a slum clearance or simply a building site is not clear, but the generally run-down character of this desolate scene compares bitterly to the quintessential Renaissance image of civic order in The Ideal City, by an unknown artist.
Gallery label, September 2004
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Catalogue entry
T00162 STREET AND RAILWAY BRIDGE 1946
Inscr. ‘John Minton 1946’ b.r.
Canvas, 18×24 (46×61).
Purchased from Mrs Helen Forbes through the Lefevre Gallery (Knapping Fund) 1957.
Coll: Mrs Helen Forbes 1947–57.
Exh: Lefevre Gallery, December 1946–January 1947 (9); Arts Council, October–November 1958 (9).
Repr: Tate Gallery Report 1957–8 , 1958; Sir John Rothenstein, British Art since 1900, 1962, pl.79.
One of a number of London scenes painted in the 1940s.
Published in:
Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, London 1964, II
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