Artist Stanley Lewis: Study for Right Hand Side of Hyde Park in Summer, 1931

Artist Stanley Lewis (1905 - 2009): Study for Right Hand Side of Hyde Park in Summer, 1931

 
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Stanley Lewis (1905 - 2009):
Study for Right Hand Side of Hyde Park in Summer, 1931
Framed (ref: 3824)

Black chalk on paper, 100 1/4 x 59 3/4 in. (254.5 x 151.8 cm.)

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Provenance: from the artist's own collection.

Exhibited: The Unknown Artist: Stanley Lewis and his contemporaries, Cecil Higgins Art Gallery & Bedford Museum, 12th June - 5th September 2010..cat.no.29




This life-size cartoon, which indicates the scale on which the Hyde Park mural was originally envisaged,  conveys a monumentality which is, arguably, lacking in the finished oil painting.

John Midgley, Principal of Carmarthen, commented on Stanley's skill as a draftsman as follows:
His work was always marked by thoroughness and strong individuality, and in his drawing he showed himself to be the possessor of a rare skill in the characterization of his subject.  In figure work in particular his studies evinced his ability to appreciate and render form. (January 1926)