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Painting of the month - June 2008
Published: Monday 16th June 2008
Each month we bring you a hidden gem from our collections, for June; After Rain, Hardcastle Crags by Leonard Shaw (c.1890-1967) has been chosen.
Painting of the month - June 2008
After Rain, Hardcastle Crags
Leonard Shaw (c.1890-1967)
This watercolour was selected as a painting of the month by Mrs Cynthia Ramsay of Burnley. Her father was the artist and her brother and mother are seen in this painting. He was a pottery teacher at Burnley College.
The painting was given to Towneley by Wilfred Dean, honorary secretary of the Art Gallery and Museum sub-committee, in 1940. He purchased it from the Local Artists' Exhibition, at Towneley in 1939.
In the 1950s, the painting was on display in the Edward Stocks Massey Watercolour Gallery, placed between "Grapes and a Pineapple" by William Henry Hunt (1790-1864) and "Off Caernarvon" by Thomas Sewell Robins (1814-1880).
