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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

Categories

Paentiad | Painting Celf Gain | Fine Art 11_CADP_Feb_22 Celf ar y Cyd (100 Artworks) Arts Council Wales Tirwedd | Landscape Plentyn | Child Capel | Chapel DIWYDIANT A GWAITH | INDUSTRY AND WORK Cysylltiad Cymreig | Welsh connection Ôl 1945 | Post 1945 CADP content
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