Building the new home (M1135 study)

Brangwyn Portfolio

1915-1925

59x72cm, chalk on grey paper. Large sketch has numbered squares along bottom and sides.

Inscription: ‘BUILDING THE NEW HOME’ along bottom edge and word ‘GOLD’ in sky.  Also ‘orange cliff’, ‘blue of gold’, ‘grey tone against gold/lilac in garden’, ‘boy in tree’, ‘the landing’, ‘[?] oily coat Hunter’, ‘yellow’, ‘3 fig only’. 

Owner: pwu

Provenance: private collection; Abbott & Holder 2002; LLFA 2012 (£3000)

Ill: Brangwyn Portfolio 54 (27.5x38cm). Alford and Horner, Brangwyn in his studio, 2004, p70

Sketch of spandrel with 4 subsidiary sketches, study for State Capitol, Jefferson City, USA.