Kenneth Raymond Denton (1932-2024) - Framed Oil The Fishermens' Cupboard

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A large nautical scene by award-winning British artist Kenneth Denton (b.1932). Entitled 'The Fishermen's Cupboard'. A tangle of colourful nets, ropes, and buoys sprawled across the canvas, inviting you to look and keep looking as you discover more. The painting has been presented in an attractive gilt frame with internal slip. Signed to the lower left. Signed and inscribed verso. On board.

Condition

In fine condition.

Size

49 x 59cm (19.3" x 23.2")
Framed Size: 66 x 76cm (26" x 29.9")

Artist Biography

Painter in oil of traditional landscape and marine pictures and teacher, born Chatham, Kent. He won a scholarship to Medway College of Art in 1944 and in 1946 became an apprentice to decorative artist Arthur Charles Gull. After National Service in the Army, in 1954 Denton set up as a freelance decorative artist while gaining a Fellowship of the British Institute of Interior Designers and The Chartered Society of Designers. In 1967 he turned to full-time painting and has held several teaching posts, including Maidstone College of Art and Royal School of Military Engineering. In 1983 Denton was the winner of the Hunting Art Prize and is also a member of the RSMA, and the International Society of Marine Painters. Known as Ray Denton, he is also a member of the Hesketh Hubbard Art Society and a winner of the Charles Pears prize at the Royal Society of Marine Artists. Examples of his work are in the collections of former Prime Minister Edward Heath, Littlehampton Museum, Sussex, Laren Museum, Amsterdam, Holland, National Maritime Museum, Mystic Seaport, Connecticut, USA and the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich. Denton's work has been reproduced in print form by Solomon and Whitehead Ltd, Royles, Medici Society, Gordon Fraser and Rosenstiel. His solo exhibitions include two at Folkington Manor, Polegate, Sussex in 1982 and 1985 and 'Reflections' at W. H. Patterson, London in 2001.

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SKU sm550
Artist Kenneth Raymond Denton (1932-2024)
Date 20th Century
Dimensions 49 x 59cm
Medium Oil
Style Realism
Subject Nautical & Seascape
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