Description

This charming mid-century oil depicts a picturesque view of the River Tee, on the North bank of Barnard Castle. The artist has painted the scene in an impressionistic manner with textured impasto emphasising the river's rippling water bounding over shallow cascades. The painting has been signed and dated to the lower right-hand corner. With a second artist's signature and title verso. On canvas on stretchers.

Condition

The condition is typical for a picture of this age including some craquelure across the surface. The canvas stretchers have twisted slightly with the painting not sitting flat in the top right-hand corner. There are two surface dents visible in the canvas. The first just above the artist's signature and the second in the skyline, Both to the right-hand side.

Collection Information

A fine group of oils from the English painter Miles Meehan. The collection focuses on Mid Century life in England, particularly rural towns and villages and the countryside surrounding the artist's birthplace of Darlington, County Durham.

Biography

Myles Meehan, born in Darlington, County Durham in 1904, was a noted artist in England, especially from the 1940’s onward. Much of his work depicts the social and industrial life of England during the 1950’s.

He was a prominent member of the Croydon Arts Society. He made a bequest of a number of artworks to Darlington Borough Collection and provision was made for a Trust Fund to promote the development of the visual arts in the Darlington area. Housed within the Darlington Arts Centre is an art gallery known as the Myles Meehan Gallery.