Horses Released from Work, 12 carved and gilded gesso panels on lacquered veneer, for entrance above main lounge, RMS Caronia II 1948

Coventry, Frederick Halford

Title
Horses Released from Work, 12 carved and gilded gesso panels on lacquered veneer, for entrance above main lounge, RMS Caronia II
Date
1948
Description

Client Cunard. Reproduced in “A Study of Design Aboard the RMS Caronia”, Art and Industry, Vol 47, No 278, August 1949, pp. 62-63; Gail Ross, Art & Industry: Frederick Halford Coventry, Art New Zealand, No. 125, Summer 2007-2008, p 62. Working images exhibited in An Exhibition of Mural Decorations, Paintings, Engravings and Drawings by F.H. Coventry, New Zealand House, London, 1950 (Cat Nos. G 1-3).Photograph of panels exhibited in Art On The Liners Exhibition, Southampton City Art Gallery, 1986.