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Chapel and Tip
Artist: SHORT, Denys (1927-)
Children are playing a ball game in a steep valley street, leading up to a Welsh chapel. Painted in about 1960, this work has an incredible poignancy in light of the 1966 Aberfan disaster, when a collapsed coal tip killed 116 children. Here, children play at the foot of the Chapel in the shadow of a looming tip – a precarious symbol of both community prosperity and unimaginable devastation.What street games do you remember playing as a child? How are things different today?
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 25830
Creation/Production
SHORT, Denys
Role: Creation
Date:
Acquisition
Gift, 1996
Rhodd Casgliad Cyngor Celfyddydau Cymru, 2002
Arts Council of Wales Collection, Gifted 2002
Measurements
h(cm) frame:194.0
w(cm) frame:136.2
Techniques
oil on board
Techniques (fine art)
art dept - fine
Fine Art - painting
Material
oil
board
Location
In store
Comments - (3)
Apologies for any inconvenience caused.
Graham Davies, Online Curator, Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales
Thank you CASW for choosing this one.
Dear Museum, please - a print or at least a postcard of Chapel and Tip.