GERALD PARKINSON British landscape artist - Biography - Paintings for Sale

GERALD PARKINSON: Signed framed seascape oil painting – View from a Beach 1960.

Here is a most beautiful and tranquil oil painting by the famed Sussex artist Gerald Parkinson. It is entitled “View from a Beach” and depicts a flotilla of the old much loved Thames sailing barges making their way east to west just off the Sussex coast, as observed by the artist on the beach. It is signed by the artist and handsomely framed in the 1960s style.

Paintings by Gerald Parkinson are now increasingly collectable and fetch high prices on the rare occasions that they come up for auction. For example, his “Good Morning, Britanny” recently fetched US$813 and his “Long and Winding Road” made US$775.

This lovely painting is expertly executed in oil on board and is signed by the artist at bottom right. It is handsomely framed in a silvered frame in the 1960s style, measuring overall approximately 95 cm. by 50 cm. The painting itself is in excellent condition with no sign of flaking or lifting of the paint surface although there is a small area of apparent repaired damage to the silvered frame. This does not, however, in any way detract. On the back, the artist has signed the painting again as GERALD PARKINSON, E. HOATHLY and dated the picture 1960. The picture is ready to hang.

We are asking £175 for this lovely Gerald Parkinson painting including UK postage but by all means try an offer. Enquiries please by Email to jameskt22 @ aol.com

BIOGRAPHY

GERALD PARKINSON was born in 1926 at Shipley, Yorkshire. He studied at Bradford College of Art 1951-54 and became particularly known for his ethereal landscapes, many of which were painted on trips to Europe, particularly Brittany and Spain. He served in the Royal Navy for 3 years, mainly in the Far East and his later works are often based on the sea and harbours. The artist has held solo exhibitions in Stockholm, Bologna and London and has also shown at the Royal Academy, the Royal West of England Academy and with the Artists’ International Association. In the 1950s, he painted a series of posters for the GPO and for the main Italian shipping line. Examples of the artist’s work are to be found at the Kelvingrove Art Gallery in Glasgow, the Brighton Art Gallery, Luton’s Wardown Park Museum, Leicestershire Artworks Collection and the Royal Academy of Music. The artist has lived for many years in the Sussex village of East Hoathly. (Biography with acknowledgement to Notjusthockney.info.)

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