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Mules in Tuscany, Italy

© the estate of Mary Fedden / Bridgeman Images. Image credit: University of Warwick

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This painting was purchased for Coventry College of Education from the 'Pictures for Schools' Exhibition. In post-war Britain, art education was held to be an important part of a child's development and schools and colleges were actively encouraged to collect original works of art so that children and students could explore the ways in which they had been made. In the late 1950s travel in Europe opened up to more people, beguiled by new travel writing and, indeed by the cookery books of Elizabeth David that introduced a sense of the Mediterranean to the United Kingdom. Here, Mary Fedden deploys reds and oranges in a non-naturalistic way to suggest the heat of Tuscany. She depicts a traditional way of life: one that would be of interest to tourists.

University of Warwick

Coventry

Title

Mules in Tuscany, Italy

Date

1956

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 45.7 x W 56.7 cm

Accession number

wu0364w

Acquisition method

purchased from the 'Pictures for Schools' exhibition, 1958

Work type

Painting

Inscription description

signed and dated

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University of Warwick

Mead Gallery, University of Warwick, Coventry, West Midlands CV4 7AL England

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