Frank Brangwyn: Landing the Catch: Boat Building in the Harbour, 1914

Frank Brangwyn: Landing the Catch: Boat Building in the Harbour, 1914 - on Art WW I

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Frank Brangwyn:
Landing the Catch: Boat Building in the Harbour, 1914
Framed (ref: 2968)
Signed with monogram and date b.r.: ‘FB 1914’
Oil on canvas, 50 x 48 in. (127 x 121.9 cm.)

Tags: Frank Brangwyn oil maritime

Reference: Galloway 308
Provenance: Barbizon House (1926); private collection (UK)
Exh: Barbizon House, 1926 (cat 4)
Lit and Ill: Barbizon House Record, 1926

The Barbizon House record noted that:
‘There is a ﬁne massive confusedness in this remarkable painting. The busy scene is ﬁlled with the movement of many strong ﬁgures, some occupied with the ephemeral passing of the ﬁsh-catch of the morning, while others are equally busy with the more permanent building of a good ship of the future.

The artist has aimed at producing a grand decorative scheme showing the scaffolding reaching to the ribs of the vessel and the active movement ofthe workers in full swing, each absorbed in his own labour.’