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Clerks & Ponies
Maker
Keeping, Charles William James
Production date
1955
Current rights
All Rights Reserved
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Object detail
About this object
Lithograph on paper of office workers lying on grass with scattered newspapers. There are ponies in the background. Signed. Dated.
Edition/State/Version
13/30
Production date
1955
Production place
Production period
Production technique
Media/Materials description
Ink on paper
Media/Materials
Measurements
Height x Width: 420 x 257mm
Height x Width: 668 x 497mm
Height x Width: 668 x 497mm
Signature/Inscription
Charles Keeping 1955, Signature, Handwritten
Clerks and Ponies/ 13/30, Inscription, Handwritten
Craft Centre 1956, Inscription, Handwritten
Charles Keeping was born in 1924 in Lambeth Walk and his first jobs were in the printing trade and the engineering and gas industries. In the last war he served with the Royal Navy as a telegraphist and afterwards studied art at the Polytechnic, Regent Street. At present his prints are mainly concerned with work horses in and around the back streets of South-East and East London. He has illustrated a number of books, and his work has been purchased by the Victoria and Albert museum, the London County Council, and the South London Art Gallery. He is represented in many educational collections, including Derby, Coventry, Wakefield and Nottingham, and is the Secretary of the Senefolder Club, founded in 1910 as an association of artist lithographers., Label, Typed
Clerks and Ponies/ 13/30, Inscription, Handwritten
Craft Centre 1956, Inscription, Handwritten
Charles Keeping was born in 1924 in Lambeth Walk and his first jobs were in the printing trade and the engineering and gas industries. In the last war he served with the Royal Navy as a telegraphist and afterwards studied art at the Polytechnic, Regent Street. At present his prints are mainly concerned with work horses in and around the back streets of South-East and East London. He has illustrated a number of books, and his work has been purchased by the Victoria and Albert museum, the London County Council, and the South London Art Gallery. He is represented in many educational collections, including Derby, Coventry, Wakefield and Nottingham, and is the Secretary of the Senefolder Club, founded in 1910 as an association of artist lithographers., Label, Typed
Classification terms
Current rights
Credit line
purchase. Reproduced with kind permission from The Keeping Gallery
Other number(s)
7093
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