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Drawing
Hughes, Olwen
(Artist)
Drawing of the Cardiff United Synagogue, Cathedral Road, Cardiff. Framed and mounted.
Part of a series of drawings commissioned by the Cardiff Jewish Representative Council as a pictorial record of synagogues in Wales. They were presented to the Welsh Folk Museum, by Gerald Rapport, on behalf of the council, in a ceremony to open an exhibition of the drawings, 1 February 1989.
Collection Area
Social & Cultural History
Item Number
F89.37.1
Historical Associations
Associated Person/Body: Cardiff Jewish Representative Council
Association Type: Owner
Date: 1986 - 1989
Place: Caerdydd | Cardiff
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: 1986
Acquisition
Donation
Measurements
Height
(cm): 60
Width
(cm): 50
thickness
(cm): 2.8
Techniques
Pen and ink
Material
Paper
Wood
Glass
Location
In store
Categories
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