A Sou’wester over the Downs

Location

Country: Other
City: other locations abroad

Claude Grahame Muncaster was born in West Chiltington in Sussex. He exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1919 and his first solo exhibition was held in 1926 at the Fine Art Society in London. He was President of the Royal Society of Painters in Watercolours from 1951 to 1960 and he published several books on art. His work is represented in public collections including the Tate, the Royal Academy and the Royal Collection in London.

Places

England, Sussex, South Downs

Subjects

topography, landscape C20th, tree, cloud, sunlight, storm, hill, downland, field, hedgerow

Materials & Techniques

canvas, oil, oil painting

Artist

Claude Grahame Muncaster (1903 - 1974)

Title

A Sou’wester over the Downs

Date

1950

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

height: 64.00 cm, width: 76.80 cm

Acquisition

Transferred from the Crown Suppliers, September 1995

Inscription

bl: CLAUDE MUNCASTER ; verso on stretcher: OX/197 A SOU'WESTER OVER THE DOWNS // CLAUDE MUNCASTER 1950

Provenance

Ministry of Supply, later Crown Suppliers; transferred to GAC 1995

GAC number

16996