Shipwreck
Unknown Artist
- Art Funded
- 1955
- Dimensions
- 30.5 x 40.6 cm
- Presented by
- F D Lycett Green through The Art Fund
In this painting, a sailing vessel has run aground and, to the right, the crew attempt to salvage the wreckage along the sandy shore.
This painting was part of a collection of 117 works belonging to the industrialist and engineer F.D. Lycett Green and bequeathed to York through the Art Fund, in 1955, in recognition of the remarkable efforts made after the Second World War by its curator to transform it into a gallery of international importance.
Provenance
W.A. Coats; F.D. Lycett Green.