Well painted original ink & wash, by the listed Barnard Castle artist Douglas Frederick Pittuck (1911 - 1993), painted circa 1965.

Depicting a workman demolishing a building in old Thorngate, Barnard Castle, next to the now also gone Bridge Hotel (previously called the Bridge Inn), his truck parked in front of the building. Pittuck recorded many buildings in Barnard Castle and the surrounding area before they were demolished in the 1960s to 1980s.

Signed lower left "D F Pittuck".

Ink and watercolour wash on wove paper. In a modern 'ebonised' finish wood frame with wash line, acid free, mount and backing card.

Image size 34cm x 46cm; frame size 54cm x 65cm. 

Painting in excellent original condition (see photos). Frame and mount also in excellent condition (see photos).

Comes with our Certificate of Authenticity - guaranteed authentic and original.

Delivered ready to hang.

This is one of three works by the artist I have listed - they came directly from the artist's studio as part of his estate sale.

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Douglas Frederick Pittuck 1911 – 1993

British landscape painter in oils and watercolours, teacher.

Douglas Pittuck was born in London and educated at Wallingford Grammar School. He studied at the Ruskin School of Drawing, Oxford, part-time in 1931–9, his studies were interrupted by conscription in 1940 when he joined the Oxford and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. He later returned from 1946–8 full-time, where his teachers including Percy Horton, Eric Ravilious, Allan Gwynne-Jones, Albert Rutherston and Barnett Freedman.

He showed work at the Cooling Galleries, Royal Society of British Artists and at public galleries in Gateshead, Newcastle upon Tyne and Darlington. He has had several one-man shows, at the Bowes Museum and Castle Gallery, Barnard Castle. The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford holds examples of his work. Douglas Pittuck was appointed Art Master at Barnard Castle School, a post which he occupied for twenty-five years, influencing a generation of artists.

Lived in Barnard Castle, County Durham, where Glaxo Laboratories commissioned a mural by him.

Text source: 'Artists in Britain Since 1945' by David Buckman (Art Dictionaries Ltd, part of Sansom & Company)