Sydney Foley (1916-2001) - 20th Century Watercolour Street Scene

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Description

A charming, industrial street scene with cranes. Painted in soft watercolour tones, Foley captures the quiet atmosphere of this morning scene. Signed to the lower right. On wove.

Condition

The condition is typical for a picture of this age including some discolouration.

Size

27.1 x 34.8cm (10.7" x 13.7")
Sheet: 28.8 x 36.8cm (11.3" x 14.5")

Artist Biography

Sydney Foley was born in Tottenham in 1916 and educated locally. He started painting at Tottenham County School from where he won a “Saturday Morning Scholarship” at Hornsey School of Art. An artist with a wide-ranging interest in drawing and painting in all the traditional media, he worked mostly in plein-air painting. He exhibited regularly with several of the London-based societies and was a member and Past President of the Wapping Group, the United Society of Artists, the London Sketch Club, the Artists Society, the Langham Sketching Club, the RWS Club and he was President of the Walton Art Club. He also showed at the RSMA of which he was an elected Fellow.




Although much of Foley's painting was on the Thames and River Medway, he also worked elsewhere in Britain and in France and Venice, the last of which he visited each year. He had many solo and joint exhibitions and among his prizes was a Stanley Grimm Prize of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters. An example of his work is in the collection of the National Maritime Museum.

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SKU qi266
Artist Sydney Foley (1916-2001)
Date 20th Century
Dimensions 27.1 x 34.8cm
Medium Watercolour
Subject Architecture & Cityscapes
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