Art Selection - Netherton Furnaces

Title: Netherton Furnaces
By: R Baxendale 1931

Watercolour. The artist's main interest is in the contrast between the fiery glow from the furnaces and the surrounding blackness and also in the scale of the factory buildings, which dwarf the human figures who work in it.

Nothing is known about the artist.

The picture was donated to the Art Gallery in 1969.