Details about  GRAHAM CROWLEY b1950 Ltd Ed Lithograph Urban Rooftops Curwen Press. 1980s

GRAHAM CROWLEY - Untitled

A limited edition lithograph printed by Curwen Press by contemporary artist Graham Crowley. Between 1998 – 2006 he was Professor of Painting, Royal College of Art, London.  Known for his focus on housing estates and urban decay, this shows a view out of an industrial rooftop setting

Signed and numbered from an edition of 20 lower left

One of two on my site by the artist.

Mint condition

Measures 46 x 38 cm

Suitable for combined p&p with other loose prints, £1 UK, £3 overseas.

Graham Crowley (b.1950) became a painter in the early 1970s out of conviction for the validity of painting, at a time when artists of the '1968 generation' were seeking to break the link with painting and its traditions.  Crowley studied at St. Martin’s School of Art London 1968-72 and Royal College of Art London 1972-75, and has held significant teaching posts including Professor of Painting at the RCA (1998-2006). Crowley's work spans a vast variance in style from the approprationist art of the 70's to his brilliantly luminous landscapes of the present day, tracking a fundamental narrative with political, cultural and personal histories within them.

In a deliberate reaction to British dependence on American models, Crowley looked initially to European Modernism, and the clamorous, bright, exciting, 'non-figurative' images he was making by the late 1970s were directly inspired by Léger.

Quite quickly his visual language moved to the figurative, with the need to draw content into his images: with his conscious adoption of 'genre' painting, his subject became increasingly his own life and work experience. Following landscape paintings of housing estates focussed on urban decay, Crowley directed his attention to the genres of rural landscape and flower painting, the landscape of West Cork inspiring his most recent paintings since Crowley moved there in the mid-1990s.

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