Two nudes standing by a river, circa 1920

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Two nudes standing by a river, circa 1920

SKU: 2769

Signed and dated, titled on a label on the reverse. Tempera on panel.

Size:
Height – 32cm
Width – 29cm

DESCRIPTION

Presentation:
framed

Geoffrey Clement Cowles – currently a subject of on going research – began exhibiting during World War I (at the Chenil Gallery and with the NEAC) and at the R.A, 23 works between 1930 and 1970. His address was Studio 2, Kensington Church Street, W8. He painted several pictures of St Clement’s, Jersey, Channel Islands.

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THE ARTIST

Geoffrey Clement

Cowles

1894 - 1981

Geoffrey Clement Cowles [also known as Clement Cowles] was born in Lambourne, Berkshire England in 1894 and was active as a

painter and commercial artist in the UK from c.1915 to the early 1970s.

In c.1930 he designed a poster for BP Ethyl entitled ‘Stop Knocking Use BP Ethyl’.

A drawing by him for a press advertisement

for J. & E. Atkinson Ltd., produced by J. Walter Thompson, is illustrated in ‘Modern Publicity’ 1932 (p.55).

Between 1916 and 1979 Cowles exhibited at Chenil Gallery, International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers, the

New English Art Club, and the Royal Academy in London.

Geoffrey Clement Cowles painted several landscapes of St Clement’s, Jersey, Channel Islands.

He died in 1981.

We are grateful to Chris Mees for assistance