The Watcher

Location

Country: India
City: Mumbai
Place: British Deputy High Commission

Born in Huddersfield, Daphne Reynolds studied at Huddersfield College of Art in the late 1920s, but due to financial pressures, left early to work in her father’s photographic studio. In 1941, she worked at the Civil Defence Department in London where she met her future husband, Graham Reynolds, who became Keeper of the Department of Prints and Drawings and Paintings at the Victoria & Albert Museum. From the 1950s, Reynolds resumed painting, influenced by American Abstract Expressionism, a major exhibition of which she saw at the Tate in 1959. A regular exhibitor in London and Suffolk, she was a founder-member of Gainsborough’s House Print Workshop and a fellow of the Printmakers’ Council. She died in Bradfield, Suffolk in 2002.

Places

Subjects

abstract, semi-figurative, man

Materials & Techniques

canvas, oil, oil painting

Artist

Daphne Reynolds (1918 - 2002)

Title

The Watcher

Date

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

height: 127.00 cm, width: 102.00 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from Anthony Dawson, July 1968

Inscription

verso tl: REYNOLDS (on folded over canvas) ; verso tl (on stretcher bar): REYNOLDS

GAC number

8185