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Drawing
Hughes, Olwen
(Artist)
Pencil and watercolour drawing 'The Synagogue. Cathedral Road, Cardiff'. Presented by donor in the name of her mother Yenta Levi (deceased). Signed and dated bottom right. Red and brown card surround. Glazed in a wooden frame with gilded insert.
The drawing was commissioned from the artist by the donor, as a way of repaying the kindness shown to her family since they arrived in the Rhymney Valley as Jewish regugees from Russia in 1910.
Collection Area
Social & Cultural History
Item Number
F85.45.1
Historical Associations
Associated Person/Body: Levi, Yenta
Association Type:
Date: 1980
Place: Gilfach Fargod
Association Type: Subject
Place: Cathedral Road
Creation/Production
Born and brought up in Rhymney. Educated in Wales, she later lived and worked in Leicester. She provided illustrations for various publications and her work appeared regularly in the Western Mail and Leicester Mercury. She was awarded MBE in 2002 ‘for services to the community’.
Role: Artist
Place: Leicester
Period: 1980
Acquisition
Donation
Measurements
Length
(cm): 66.5
Height
(cm): 53.5
Depth
(cm): 3.4
Length
(cm): 47
Height
(cm): 37
Techniques
Pencil
Watercolour
Material
Paper
Card
Glass
Wood
Location
In store
Categories
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