Original Nan Youngman OBE Framed Signed Watercolour Cyclist on The Shore 1973

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Nan Youngman OBE Original Framed Watercolour

£450

 

Title: 'Cyclist on The Shore"

Year: 1973

Length 64 cms

Height: 58 cms

Depth: 3 cms

 

Very delicate and sensitive painting of a lone cyclist making their way across the empty expanse of sand under a huge and atmospherically painted sky with waves breaking gently on the shore.

Nan Youngman was an artist and educationalist born in Maidstone Kent and trained at the Slade School of Art under Henry Tonks and Phillip Wilson Steer. Youngman's most important work is regarded as her studies of industrial landscape and townscapes, and those of the Norfolk coast.

Youngman was art adviser to Cambridgeshire and was also the originator of the Pictures for Schools Exhibitions, with a first show at the V&A in 1947. In the 1950s she travelled as lecturer in art education for the British Council to the West Indies, Malta and Ghana. She exhibited with the London Group, Royal Academy, and Leicester Galleries London. A solo retrospective exhibition was held at the Minories in Colchester in 1971 and Kettle's Yard Cambridge in 1987. Youngman was awarded the OBE in 1987. 

 

Public Galleries in Manchester, Newport and Cambridge hold examples of her work.

 

 

Given to my aunt and kept in her collection.

Label on reverse reads:

Cyclist on the Shore

Watercolour 1973

Nan Youngman

For Miss D . O'Connor

 

Framed in a silver painted wooden frame. Frame has some scuffs and marks. All part of its age and patina but could be easily restored at a framers if desired.

Canvas mount.

 

Collection  from Camberwell, London SE5