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Secure Cables

Artist:Gordon Thomas
Date:1934
Medium:Oil on stretched canvas
Dimensions:Sight Size 25 1/2" X 30 1/2" Framed 30" X 35"
Condition:Excellent
Original Use:Exhibited Fine Art
Framed view in original hand crafted fine wide profile frame
Framed view in original hand crafted fine wide profile frame
The artist's signature and date of '34 lower right
The artist’s signature and date of ’34 lower right

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Secure Cables is a moving and kinetic, exhibited, WPA aesthetic, signed and dated oil on canvas painting by the Scottish Artist Albert Gordon Thomas. This honors the hard working efforts of those who advanced industry and commerce during the dizzying years of the industrial revolution and machine age. This was exhibited in 1935 in Scotland at the Stirling Fine Art Association show, the verso retains the original exhibition label with the hand written title. Additionally, there is a framers label from a Glasgow picture framer called John Gibson, who made this wonderful, wide profile, art deco handsome frame that is original to the artwork.

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verso labels
Back view of untouched old canvas
Back view of untouched old canvas
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Royal Scottish Watercolour Society member Albert Gordon Thomas was a Glasgow painter who studied and taught at The Glasgow School Of Art. He exhibited at the RSA, RSW and the Glasgow Institute.

Secure Cables

Artist: Gordon Thomas

Filed Under: Fine & Decorative Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1930s, art deco, Exhibited, Glasgow, Gordon Thomas, Scottish, WPA
Added to Gallery: June 15, 2016

 

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