Original landscape watercolour painting, depicting a view across the Yorkshire Dales at Winterburn in North Yorkshire by Yorkshire artist Joseph Pighills (1902-1984), created in 1981, this is a classic example of this artist's work.

Joseph (Joe) Pighills was born in Oxehope, near Keighley, where he lived for all of his life in the same row of cottages on the edge of the moor, he left school at 14 years old and always had a natural talent for art, which he developed at evening classes at the Keighley School of Art.  He worked as an engineering pattern maker until he took retirement at 63 because of stomach problems, he then began to paint seriously.  He held his first solo exhibition at Cliffe Castle in 1961 and was exhibited again at Bradford’s Lane Gallery in 1963, these shows brought his talent and work to public attention and his work was increasingly shown after that.

- Signed and dated (19)81 lower right

- Inscribed with the title verso

- Framed, double-mounted, glazed and ready to hang, in its original gilt-trimmed moulded wooden period frame

- Frame size 57.5cm x 47.5cm (approx. 22 3/4 inches x 18 3/4 inches)

- The painting is in excellent condition

- The frame has a slither of wood missing from the underside of the lower right corner, see image above, otherwise it is sound and in very good condition

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