Our latest exhibition at the Bingley Gallery presents a range of work by Bradford\u2019s late great artists including Joe Pighills, Percy Monkman, James Hardaker, Walter C.Foster, Frances Watson Sunderland, Arthur McArthur, Myriam Burton, John Butterfield, James Arundel, Jack Prior, William Parker, GC Barlow, Edward Renard, Arthur Craven and many more. It\u2019s a bit like a museum, \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026but with the chance to buy a piece of our region\u2019s art history.<\/p>\n
I was largely introduced to the work of these artists through the website and publications of Colin Neville; ‘Not Just Hockney’, which provides comprehensive catalogue of the Bradford area’s artists past and present and I would like to thank Colin for his support for the exhibition, not least in allowing me to base my artists biographies on his text. Several other people offered further support, not least the grandson and biographer of Percy Monkman, Martin Greenwood, but also Dave ‘Dodo Bones’ Foster, the grandson of Walter C. Foster. Sadly Dave died during the preparation of the show, but his partner, Clio, was insistent on it continuing to include prints of Walter’s work, as Dave would have wanted. The show is dedicated to his memory.<\/p>\n
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Joseph Pighills 1902-84<\/strong><\/p>\n Pighills was born and lived his whole life in Oakworth. Attending evening classes at Keighley College of Art, he developed his natural talent – and built a considerable reputation as a \u2018painter\u2019s painter\u2019. When ill health required him to give up his work with an engineering company, his art provided a good living. Best known for his stormy views of the moorland near his home.<\/p>\n NB we also have a selection of limited edition prints from Joe’s son, which are signed, but were never distributed which are therefore in perfect condition<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_gallery admin_label=”JP Gallery” gallery_ids=”5760,5761,5762,5764,5765,5766,5767,5786,5769,5770,5771,5772,5773,5774,5775,5776,5777,5778,5779,5780,5781,5782,5784,5785,5783,5787″ posts_number=”35″ _builder_version=”3.20.2″]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_gallery][et_pb_text admin_label=”PM Text” _builder_version=”3.20.2″ background_color=”#000000″]<\/p>\n Percy Monkman 1892- 1986<\/strong><\/p>\n Born in Bradford, but later moving to Baildon, Monkman\u2019s career working in a bank contrasted strongly with other strands of his life including entertainer, actor and prolific painter of urban Bradford as well as The Dales. His life history has been published by his grandson, Martin Greenwood.<\/p>\n NB a further eleven Monkman originas still to be added to the gallery<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_gallery admin_label=”PM Gallery” gallery_ids=”5788,5871,5789,5790,5791,5792,5793,5794,5795,5796,5797,5798,5799,5800,5801,5802,5803,5804,5805,5806,5807″ posts_number=”30″ _builder_version=”3.20.2″]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_gallery][et_pb_text admin_label=”JH text” _builder_version=”3.20.2″ background_color=”#000000″]<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Born in Bradford and studied at the city\u2019s College of Art. Before moving to Bingley where he ran an art gallery\/shop\/studio; first at Myrtle Place then in Park Road, a few doors down from the current Bingley Gallery.<\/p><\/div>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_gallery admin_label=”JS Gallery” gallery_ids=”5225,5223,5221,5220,5219,5218,5079,5078,5077″ posts_number=”20″ _builder_version=”3.20.2″]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_gallery][et_pb_text admin_label=”JS text” _builder_version=”3.20.2″ background_color=”#000000″]<\/p>\n John Sowden 1838-1926<\/strong><\/p>\n A Bradford architect turned wealthy property developer who balanced this with the position of Master, then Head of Art at The Mechanics Institute. His own output of paintings was notable in quantity and quality, including portraits of the Bradford well-to-do and, famously, street characters over 300 of which are held by the Bradford museums Service.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_gallery admin_label=”JS Gallery” gallery_ids=”5808,5809″ posts_number=”12″ _builder_version=”3.20.2″]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_gallery][et_pb_text admin_label=”GCB text” _builder_version=”3.20.2″ background_color=”#000000″]<\/p>\n Gordon Clifford Barlow 1930-2005<\/strong><\/p>\n Bradford born, but later moved to Ilkley where he was turored by Herbert Royle.\u00a0 Gordon worked as a signwriter and decorator until his art proved successful to buyers and in exhibitions, including Paris and London.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_gallery admin_label=”GCB Gallery” gallery_ids=”5378,4868,5811,5812″ posts_number=”10″ _builder_version=”3.20.2″]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_gallery][et_pb_text admin_label=”JB Text” _builder_version=”3.20.2″ background_color=”#000000″]<\/p>\n John Butterfield \u00a01913-97 <\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong>After retiring from his own wool business, Clayton born Butterfield, ran a gallery to sell his own and other\u2019s art, first at Heaton, then Thornton. Best known for his pen and wash Dales scenes<\/p>\n <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_gallery admin_label=”JB Gallery” gallery_ids=”5813,5901,5277,4874,5235,5234,5233,5232,4875,4876,4877,5080″ posts_number=”15″ _builder_version=”3.20.2″ hover_overlay_color=”rgba(255,255,255,0.9)”]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_gallery][et_pb_text admin_label=”FWS Text” _builder_version=”3.20.2″ background_color=”#000000″]<\/p>\n Frances Watson Sunderland 1866-1949<\/strong><\/p>\n Living all her life in Keighley, Sunderland studied at the town\u2019s School of Art and went on to teach there also, although her art found favour in exhibitions much further afield. Many of her views are of the local landscape, but the Yorkshire coast was also a popular subject matter, with watercolours in her subtle colour palette.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_gallery admin_label=”FWS Gallery” gallery_ids=”4867,4866,4865″ posts_number=”15″ _builder_version=”3.20.2″]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_gallery][et_pb_text admin_label=”MB Text” _builder_version=”3.20.2″ background_color=”#000000″]<\/p>\n Myriam Burton 1907-1997<\/strong><\/p>\n Originally studied at Lancaster College of Art before working freelance. After raising her family and based in Lady Lane, Bingley, Myriam began to gain international recognition. Her work was accepted four years running at the Soci\u00e9te des Artistes Fran\u00e7<\/em>ais (Paris Salon) for which she was made an associate and later awarded a silver medal by the prestigious society. Other work was exhibited in New York, Cannes, Vichy, Clermont Ferrand and at the Royal Academy and other London Galleries. Despite her remarkable success, Yorkshire galleries remained distinctly cool to her talents.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_gallery admin_label=”MB Gallery” gallery_ids=”5399,5815″ posts_number=”15″ _builder_version=”3.20.2″]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_gallery][et_pb_text admin_label=”WCF Text” _builder_version=”3.20.2″ background_color=”#000000″]<\/p>\n Walter C Foster 1887-1929<\/strong><\/p>\n Occasionally, surviving family members have helped raise the profile of some of the earlier artists. David Foster has, through the press, video and social media, not to mention the issuing of new prints, made his grandfather, Walter C. Foster\u2019s bold watercolours more widely known. Walter, born in Bingley in 1887, got his break by gaining a scholarship to the Royal College of Art in London. Returning to Yorkshire, he first taught art at a series of schools before becoming Headmaster at Shipley School of Art. Little of his work seems to have been sold before his untimely death in 1929, aged just 42. and much remained stored in the family\u2019s attic until his grandson, rediscovered it.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_gallery admin_label=”WCF Gallery” gallery_ids=”5822,5823,5824,5825,5826,5827,5828,5829,5830,5831″ posts_number=”10″ _builder_version=”3.20.2″]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_gallery][et_pb_text admin_label=”ER text” _builder_version=”3.20.2″ background_color=”#000000″]<\/p>\n Edward Renard 1854-1915<\/strong><\/p>\n London born Renard studied at the National Art School (which later became the Royal College of Art) in 1882 he was appointed as Head of the Shipley School of Art founded by Titus Salt and was a major figure in the formation of the Yorkshire Union of Artists.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_gallery admin_label=”ER Gallery” gallery_ids=”5241,4869″ posts_number=”12″ _builder_version=”3.20.2″]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_gallery][et_pb_text admin_label=”WW Text” _builder_version=”3.20.2″ background_color=”#000000″]<\/p>\n William Hartley Waddington <\/strong>1883 – 1961<\/strong><\/p>\n Born into an affluent family of wool merchants, Waddington lived his early life in Manningham. After graduating from the Slade School of art he moved to the Lake District to paint and teach art.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_gallery admin_label=”WW Gallery” gallery_ids=”5821″ posts_number=”24″ _builder_version=”3.20.2″ hover_overlay_color=”rgba(255,255,255,0.9)”]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_gallery][et_pb_text admin_label=”AMC Text” _builder_version=”3.20.2″ background_color=”#000000″]<\/p>\n Arthur Mc.Arthur 1827-1892<\/strong><\/p>\n Research by the gallery suggests he was born in France moving to Leicestershire then Nottingham but was based in Bradford in the early 1870s. Many of his views of \u2018old\u2019 Bradford date to this time. Some of the works held by the gallery have been found to have numerous notes about the subject in the margins.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_gallery admin_label=”AMA Gallery” gallery_ids=”5229,5228,5019,4892,4860,4859,4858,5832″ posts_number=”12″ _builder_version=”3.20.2″]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_gallery][et_pb_text admin_label=”JA Text” _builder_version=”3.20.2″ background_color=”#000000″]<\/p>\n James Arundel 1875-1960<\/strong><\/p>\n Bradford born artist with a career which included building contractor (including lighthouses!), poet, broadcaster and professional painter whose work was widely exhibited including the Paris Salon and Royal Academy. His paintings can be found in the collections of Bradford Museums and Galleries, Calderdale Council, Ferens Art Gallery, Harrogate, the Hepworth Wakefield, Kirklees Museums & Galleries, Manchester City Art Gallery and Salford Art Gallery.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_gallery admin_label=”JA Gallery” gallery_ids=”5018″ posts_number=”5″ _builder_version=”3.20.2″]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_gallery][et_pb_text admin_label=”AC Text” _builder_version=”3.20.2″ background_color=”#000000″]<\/p>\n Arthur Craven 1934-2013<\/strong><\/p>\n Born in Sutton-in-Craven he moved to live near Haworth. Although he had studied at Keighley Art College for three years, he subsequently worked as a motor mechanics at a local garage. After his national service in the RAF he became an ambulance driver, and it was only later that he became a full time painter, running a gallery in Haworth, then later in Scott St., Keighley. The village of Haworth and its surrounding moorland often feature in his work.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_gallery admin_label=”AC Gallery” gallery_ids=”5890,5833,5855″ posts_number=”24″ _builder_version=”3.20.2″ hover_overlay_color=”rgba(255,255,255,0.9)”]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_gallery][et_pb_text admin_label=”FCJ Text” _builder_version=”3.20.2″ background_color=”#000000″]<\/p>\n Fred Cecil Jones 1891-1956<\/strong><\/p>\n The son of two artists, Bradford-born Jones Studied at both Bradford and (later) Leeds Colleges of art. During World War One he was stationed on the western front, serving as a reconnaissance artist, earning the nickname \u2018Detail Jones\u2019. After the war he combined painting with teaching at The Pudsey School of Art. Many of his urban vistas continued to show his characteristic level of attention to detail.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_gallery admin_label=”FCJ Gallery” gallery_ids=”5851,5852,5853″ posts_number=”6″ _builder_version=”3.20.2″]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_gallery][et_pb_text admin_label=”WPText” _builder_version=”3.20.2″ background_color=”#000000″]<\/p>\n William Parker <\/strong>1922- 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n Keighley born William (Bill) Parker had shown artistic promise from an early age and studied the subject at Keighley Mechanic\u2019s Institute, but, as with many of our artists, the need to earn a living led him to other work; in his case in a local mill. War service with the Chindits in Burma was followed by work in India until the partition, when he returned to live in Haworth. Painting was fitted around his working day until retirement in1984 when he turned more seriously to his paintings. There\u2019s a homely charm to his work, depicting as is does the landscape he loved.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_gallery admin_label=”WP Gallery” gallery_ids=”5900,5898,5899,5834,5835,5836″ posts_number=”6″ _builder_version=”3.20.2″ hover_overlay_color=”rgba(255,255,255,0.9)”]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_gallery][et_pb_text admin_label=”JW Text” _builder_version=”3.20.2″ background_color=”#000000″]<\/p>\n Joseph West 1881 \u2013 1958<\/strong><\/p>\n Born in Farnhill, the son of a labourer, West moved to Silsden and earned a living as a house painter but attended classes at the Glusborn School of art and later studied painting through the Yellow Door School of art (Colin Neville suggests this was probably by correspondence). By 1911 he gave his profession as painter artist, with a studio in Cavendish St, Keighley, then later in Silsden, whilst his own reputation as an artist increased.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_gallery admin_label=”JW Gallery” gallery_ids=”5837,5838″ posts_number=”24″ _builder_version=”3.20.2″]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_gallery][et_pb_text admin_label=”DF Text” _builder_version=”3.20.2″ background_color=”#000000″]<\/p>\n David Fell 1927-2002 <\/strong><\/p>\n Born to a working class Bradford family, Fell struggled for many years to, convert his desire to paint into a professional career. After a promising early start as a commercial artist, he worked as a lorry driver. A further 20 years passed before he was able to set himself up as an artist, with a share of the Wadsworth Gallery in Haworth.\u00a0 With a heavy dependence on commission work, his subject matter was broad. Much of his art is in the waterline style with pen work on watercolour.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_gallery admin_label=”DF Gallery” gallery_ids=”5839″ posts_number=”24″ _builder_version=”3.20.2″]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_gallery][et_pb_text admin_label=”EJWP Text” _builder_version=”3.20.2″ background_color=”#000000″]<\/p>\n Ebenezer John Woods (Jack)\u00a0Prior 1914-1988<\/strong><\/p>\n When his family wool stapling business went into liquidation, Prior converted his painting hobby into a profession. Although largely self-taught, he achieved considerable success, building a strong reputation and, apparently earning a better living than he had in his previous day job. His chosen technique was watercolour and water features in many of his paintings.<\/p>\n ch art.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_gallery admin_label=”EJWP Gallery” gallery_ids=”5840,5841″ posts_number=”6″ _builder_version=”3.20.2″]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_gallery][et_pb_text admin_label=”WBT Text” _builder_version=”3.20.2″ background_color=”#000000″]<\/p>\n Wilfrid Burnet Tapp 1880 -1976<\/strong><\/p>\n Born in Thornton with a fascination for painting from early years, Tapp kept his art a hobby, whilst following a teaching career. After retiring to Kettlewell and finally Bingley, his later years gave him more opportunity to paint the local landscape in both watercolour and oils.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_gallery admin_label=”WBT Gallery” gallery_ids=”5845″ posts_number=”6″ _builder_version=”3.20.2″]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_gallery][et_pb_text admin_label=”BC Text” _builder_version=”3.20.2″ background_color=”#000000″]<\/p>\n Barry Claughton 1935-<\/strong><\/p>\n Leeds based artist. Well known for his watercolours of the Yorkshire Dales and Lake District. Originally an art teacher he became a full-time artist in 1989.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_gallery admin_label=”BC Gallery” gallery_ids=”5888″ posts_number=”6″ _builder_version=”3.20.2″ hover_overlay_color=”rgba(255,255,255,0.9)”]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_gallery][et_pb_text admin_label=”BC Text” _builder_version=”3.20.2″ background_color=”#000000″]<\/p>\n Barbara Shaw Afraid I know very little about thes artiist, except that she lived in Bradford 2. A visor recalled her being a member of the Bradford Art Group.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_gallery admin_label=”BS Gallery” gallery_ids=”5903″ posts_number=”6″ _builder_version=”3.20.2″ hover_overlay_color=”rgba(255,255,255,0.9)”]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_gallery][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [et_pb_section bb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”3.20.2″ background_color=”#000000″][et_pb_row background_color_1=”#000000″ _builder_version=”3.20.2″ background_color=”#000000″][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Intro” _builder_version=”3.20.2″ background_color=”#000000″] Our latest exhibition at the Bingley Gallery presents a range of work by Bradford\u2019s late great artists including Joe Pighills, Percy Monkman, James Hardaker, Walter C.Foster, Frances Watson Sunderland, Arthur McArthur, Myriam Burton, John Butterfield, James Arundel, Jack Prior, William Parker, GC Barlow, Edward […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"James Hardaker (1901-91) Oil Painter<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n
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