Castlegate, Salford
Summary
Heavy impasto work depicting Castlegate, Salford; buildings are simplified to simple blocks of colour against the pale sky, indistinct dark figures walk the streets depicted in the bottom left corner. Sacred Trinity church can be seen to the right of the painting, with other surrounding buildings in red and light brown, . The result is a depiction of a busy street in an industrial city context, to the left a dark shape extends vertically across the canvas.
Object Name
Castlegate, Salford
Creators Name
Date Created
1912
Dimensions
framed: 12.2 x 23.4
Sight: 8.9cm x 15.5cm
accession number
1986.5
Place of creation
England
Support
canvas
Medium
oil paint
On Display
[G16] Manchester Art Gallery - Gallery 16 - TEMPORARILY CLOSED
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