Studio RT Ltd

Description

This is an atmospheric watercolour by the British artist MICHAEL CRAWLEY, who has signed the painting in the lower right hand. The painting depicts a busy scene in the evening during a heavy shower of rain or sleet in New York, with skyscrapers dominating the skyline. People are hurrying along under their umbrellas, steam is rising from the drains and large spots or rain or sleet are falling.

Michael Crawley is a Derbyshire artist, who was apprenticed to the Royal Crown Derby porcelain factory in the 1950s and 1960s, who used some of his landscape and flower paintings as the basis for some of the designs. He paints in both oils and watercolours, principally landscapes of Derbyshire, although he has painted scenes in New York, Italy and France and also locomotives. More biographical information with regard to his time at Royal Crown Derby is available on google.

Auction results for Michael Crawley are available at artprice.com (173 listings) and findartinfo.com (260). His foreign paintings seem to attract higher prices.

The painting has been newly double mounted in two tone to complement, and is newly framed in a gilt frame to suit. It is ready to hang.

Medium Watercolours with scratching out.