The Two Ovens (1931)

Leonard Griffith Brammer

ink and watercolour on paper

Tate, London, Liverpool and St Ives

Classification:

Drawing and Watercolour

Materials:

Ink, Watercolour, Paper

Physical Object Description:

Inscribed L. G. Brammer.’ bottom right

Dimensions:

21.6 x 23.5 cm

Accession Number:

N05549

Credit:

Presented by the Contemporary Art Society, 1944

Scheme:

Historic Purchase by Purchaser (1914-2008)

Ownership history:

Purchased from the artist by Sir Edward Marsh (1872-1953) for the Contemporary Art Society, 1944; presented to the Tate Gallery, 1944

Relationship:

Edward 'Eddie' Howard Marsh Tate, London, Liverpool and St Ives

Subject:

Factories

The two old pottery ovens at East Vale, Longton, Staffordshire are depicted. It is a working drawing made in 1931 for an etching which was exhibited at the Society of Staffordshire Artists, Stoke-on-Trent, March 1943. It was purchased from the artist by Sir Edward Marsh (1872-1953) for the Contemporary Art Society (along with the 1929 View of Burslem, now in The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent) in 1944 and presented to the Tate Gallery in the same year.

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