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A rare image of Greenwich Wharves in the 1930s. It looks westwards from the east side of the Greenwich Peninsula towards the old gas works now the site of the Dome. It is eerily devoid of figures and nature, both highly atmospheric and sterile. Yet at the same time it provides a detailed visual record of the industrial Greenwich Landscape before its ultimate decline. Cranes cut the sky at different degrees, chimneys provide the verticals. There is great subtlety of composition graduations from grey deepening to black in a study that does not shy away from showing the industrial landscape such as the gas works.

The artist took immense trouble over the paintings. There are at least six preparato...

Probably 1938
Oil on canvas
332.0 x 624.0mm
ZBA1674
Image and text © Royal Museums Greenwich, 2021

Where you'll find this

National Maritime Museum
Permanent collection